By Dave Andrusko

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Pro-Abortion President Barack Obama

As we near the end of one phase of the contentious debate over health care restructuring and abortion, when considering President Barack Obama, it's necessary to revise and extend the adage that counsels, "Watch what I do, not what I say." Health care "reform" is both (in that overused but accurate phrase) his signature issue and one Obama has promised the abortion lobby will be used as a vehicle to advance their commonly-shared agenda.

As the process begins to mesh the House and Senate bills, pro-abortionists, in general, Obama, in particular, will ratchet up the rhetorical feints and dissimulations that have been used to give the bills cover to date. Since most of the Establishment Media will repeat this uncritically, we need to remind people of the truth.

For instance, you can believe what Obama said two and a half years ago to Planned Parenthood's political arm. Speaking of his plans for "health care reform," Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, "in my mind, reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care, and so it is at the center and at the heart of the plan that I propose."

He added in those July 17, 2007, remarks, "What we're doing is to say that we're going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don't have health insurance. It'll be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services."

And you can believe what Obama is doing now: putting his shoulder to the wheel to help his pro-abortion colleagues in the House and Senate undermine a core principle of the Hyde Amendment-- prohibiting federal funds from being used to pay for coverage of elective abortions.

And you can believe that Obama is hostile to the Hyde Amendment because you can believe what his staff said in response to a candidate survey by the pro-abortion RH Reality Check:

"Obama does not support the Hyde amendment. He believes that the federal government should not use its dollars to intrude on a poor woman's decision whether to carry to term or to terminate her pregnancy and selectively withhold benefits because she seeks to exercise her right of reproductive choice in a manner the government disfavors."

What you can not believe has been (and will be) Obama's insistence that he is watching health care restructuring like a hawk to make sure (as he told ABC's Jake Tapper) that no one is "in some way sneaking in funding for abortions…" Of course, they are, although it is camouflaged by a bewildering set of bookkeeping requirements that are as convoluted as they are meaningless,

Pro-abortionists have, and will, dutifully denounce the "compromise." Their cohorts in the media will feign objectivity: if "both sides" don't like it, they write, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's bill must have it right. Poppycock!

Please read TN&V daily and regularly visit http://nrlactioncenter.com. As I concluded yesterday and began today, we have just begun to fight!

Part Two