A group of Democrats in the House have threatened to block passage of healthcare reform unless their amendment is passed – and it’s not the blue-dogs – it’s the pro-lifers.   Whether these 40 “anti-pro-choice” Democrats have the guts to follow through with their threat, and whether their amendment, blocking the use of federal monies for abortions would pass and work as intended, is suspect.  But for now, social conservatives can at least cling to the hope that these 40 souls will stick to their principles.

The proposed amendment injects the Hyde Amendment, prohibiting the federal funding of abortions with taxpayer dollars, into the final healthcare proposal.  Shockingly, Speaker Pelosi has refused to allow a vote on the amendment.   She is what I refer to as “pro-abort” - someone who not only supports a legal right for a woman to abort the child in the womb at any time for any reason, but is also a proponent of this horrendous practice worldwide.  As a Catholic, I can state that for many of us, Pelosi is a heretic; claiming to be a “Conservative Catholic,” while being a strong advocate for legal and expansive abortion rights, despite the tenets of Catholicism teaching that abortion is intrinsically evil.  Instead of protecting the most weak and innocent members of our society, Pelosi solicits and gleefully accepts campaign donations from large pro-abort groups, such as Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List.  What’s worse is that the Speaker of the House expects tax payers – regardless of political or religious convictions – to pay for this abhorrent service through a government run healthcare plan.  Can anyone say quid pro quo?

Pelosi knows – as do the 40 Democrats taking this politically dangerous stand – that all of the current iterations of the healthcare reform bill will permit Federal funds to be used for abortions.  She knows this, the President knows it, and so do the 40 pro-life Democrats who are taking this politically tenuous stand.  The Supreme Court has found that any public entitlement program offered to some, must be offered to all.  As abortion is legal and considered to be “healthcare” (although I personally see the taking of a human life as antithetical to healthcare), an argument exists that women are entitled to “free” abortions as long as the government is giving away “free” hip replacements, “free” MRIs,  and so on.  Further, although seemingly a separate issue, this same logic will result in illegal immigrants receiving “free” healthcare.  Legally, the government cannot offer “free” services without giving it to all – we see this already with illegal immigrants receiving access to our taxpayer funded public school system.

Douglas Johnson of National Right to Life, who has reviewed the House version of the healthcare bill, states that the language contained in the measure, “explicitly requires that the federal official who runs the program must calculate the total cost of abortions and increase the premium for all enrollees enough to pay for the aggregate cost of the abortions.”  This seems pretty clear to me.  Further, Johnson asserts that “the abortion premium is not optional: If you want to enroll in the government’s public health plan, you would be required to pay the abortion surcharge. If you did not want to pay for abortions, you would not be allowed to take advantage of the government program at all.” Crystal clear.

Over on the Senate side, Reid’s concise 2,500 page bill, mentions abortion in the affirmative over twenty times.  Of course, no one really knows what Reid and a handful of officials are conjuring up because they refuse to speak with specificity and are holding discussions of a final bill behind closed doors.  Remember it was Pelosi who claimed under her and Reid’s leadership, the current Congress would be the most transparent Congress of all.  How’s all that Hope and Change working out for you?

The truth is that the President and Pelosi are playing a game of semantics largely because if the public was allowed to understand what this measure will certainly do, and is intended to do to their personal medical care, they would unanimously reject it.  They are also masking the provisions and/or loopholes being purposely embedded in the bill that will permit hard earned tax payer money to fund abortions regardless of the fact that many of us – Republicans and Democrats – agree it to be wrong and immoral.

Purveyors of Truth and Transparency?  You be the judge.

By Guest Blogger Raquel Okyay

My wife and I are blessed to be expecting our fourth child. The grand event is Dec. 2. As you probably have guessed we have already been harassed by her doctor to get the swine flu vaccination. At work I hear repeated suggestions..”She should get that shot”, “If I were pregnant I’d get the vaccine”, ” If I had a pregnant wife.” BLAH. BLAH. BLAH.

Lets get a few things straight. First…this vaccine has been rushed through the pipeline with little testing. Original test groups in England were found to have signs of dementia. Some states have even lifted the restrictions on the amount of mercury allowed in the vaccine so as to help get more produced quicker.

Research has shown that our vaccine crazed society has a much more sickly generation of children than any other. Why you might ask? Simple, if the kids are not being exposed to the diseases guess what…they are not building any immunity to them. So now anytime a new disease comes along…..they need a vaccine. Can you say Cha-ching???

My wife will NOT be getting vaccinated, nor will I or our 3 homeschooled daughters. Why should we…….Barack and Michelle Obama have yet to get their own girls vaccinated. What do they know that we do not?????

Andrew Breitbart has come a long way in a few short years. Starting off as an assistant to Matt Drudge, Andrew ended up forming his own news wire service and has rocked the media ever since, adding the entertainment media watch-blog Big Hollywood, and then exploding into deep political coverage with Big Government, whose first lead story damaged the credibility of ACORN. Here Andrew is doing an interview on C-SPAN. It’s worth a watch, not only because Andrew makes for a great interview, but how foolish some of the people calling in look in trying to take rather tepid cheap-shots at the man.

Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.