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."
Until Sunday, the Michigan Democrat had insisted that he wouldn't support healthcare reform until Congress voted to rescind language widely interpreted as allowing the expenditure of public funds to pay for the abortions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew that changing the language would cost the support of other Democrats, however. So she kicked the controversy back down Pennsylvania Avenue to the president, who issued an executive order declaring that public funds would not be spent for abortions.
That last-minute move apparently gave Stupak the cover he needed to support the bill.
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