By Dave Andrusko

As President Obama picks up the tempo, a lot of attention goes to his smooze offensive--calling in various members of the House to bend them to his will on health care "reform." But equally, if not more, important is the having-it-both-ways offensive launched by the pro-abortion Democratic congressional leadership to try to delude pro-life Democrats into voting for the Senate bill passed last December.

Part Three is an invaluable overview of what is at stake for any House member contemplating voting for the Senate health care bill. To do so, writes NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson would be to "forfeit a plausible claim to pro-life credentials."

Pro-Abortion President Barack Obama

It is important that this be spelled out because the pro-abortion congressional leadership continues to insist to pro-life Democrats that the Senate measure is not freighted down with pro-abortion cargo even as the same leadership types assure pro-abortionists not to worry! You don't have to be either cynical or an insider to grasp that the anti-life side is being assured with a wink-wink even as pro-lifers are being sold a bill of goods.

If you were to take, say, an hour, and read 15 or so stories/columns from the "mainstream" media, the message is so overwhelming similar it's almost as if it were choreographed. Largely it's either that the Senate bill is pretty benign (you know how hyper-sensitive those pro-life types are!), and/or whatever there is floating around will be surgically cleaned up with separate pieces of legislation, like loose cartilage in an athlete's knee.

The former assertion understates the depth and breadth of the pro-abortion components almost as much as the latter assurance is disingenuous. As you read Part Three--and I encourage you to do so in the strongest possible terms--you will be startled, no matter how closely you've followed the twists and turns, by how terrible the Senate bill is.

It's like streams of programs and money pouring in to form a giant river. These tributaries take many, many forms.

To list just a few, massive subsidies, new programs and federal bureaucrats empowered to expand access to abortion by federal administrative decrees, additional pools of directly appropriated funds that are not covered by any limitations regarding abortion--not to mention less protection for those whose consciences will not allow them to participate in abortions.

And as for assurances that all will be well--"just trust me on this one"--well, consider the source[s], such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Keep in mind also that before he was trying to bamboozle the public and Congress, then-Senator Barack Obama promised that abortion coverage would be "at the heart" of his health care proposal.

That objective has not changed. As Mr. Johnson points out, "Throughout this Congress, President Obama has tried to deliver on this promise, even while hiding behind deceptive verbal formulations and outright misrepresentations regarding the content of legislation."

Put another way the Senate bill is rife with pro-abortion provisions which the Senate could have dealt with--if it had wanted to--by adopting the equivalent of the House Stupak-Pitts Amendment. (The Senate bill was made worse by President Obama's suggestions.)

And no matter how many cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die assurances by leading congressional pro-abortionists, no pro-lifer, in or out of the House of Representatives, should be fooled for even a millisecond.

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Part Three
Part One