Tuesday, March 23, 2010
President Obama signed a landmark health insurance overhaul Tuesday in a ceremony that put the finishing touch on a yearlong battle that has defined his presidency.The president, pausing to take in the cheers and applause from the room full of congressional Democrats, Cabinet secretaries and supporters, said the signing marks a "new season in America."
Monday, March 22, 2010
Pro-life groups are characterizing Rep. Bart Stupak's decision to support Obamacare and its abortion-funding language as a "betrayal," putting the congressman squarely in the political cross-hairs in his upcoming re-election battle in Michigan.
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, told Fox News on Monday morning: "This legislation is the biggest expansion of abortion in our country since Roe versus Wade. It really is a tragedy and on his part, it was a betrayal of historic proportions of principle."
