Time for Catholics to put up or shut up...

I'd like to know what spin the idiotic Catholics who voted for B.O. will put on this one. Bet they can't address it without bringing up Bush, any takers?

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Top Obama advisor David Axelrod on Sunday confirmed what pro-life advocates already suspected would happen. He said President Barack Obama will work with congressional Democrats to remove the abortion funding ban the House approved in its version of the government-run health care bill. (So much for "middle ground".)

Axelrod says that, because the Stupak amendment allegedly goes beyond the status quo under the Hyde amendment (which bans abortion funding under Medicaid), Obama will make sure the amendment is yanked during the conference committee.

That's the part of the legislative process that will occur if and when the Senate approves its own health care bill, which will likely start debate with abortion funding.

"The president has said repeatedly, and he said in his speech to Congress, that he doesn't believe that this bill should change the status quo as it relates to the issue of abortion," Axelrod said today on CNN's State of the Union program.

"This shouldn't be a debate about abortion. (Why the Hell not if they're going to treat abortion as a health issue? Seems anything covered by the bill is up for grabs.) And he's going to work with Senate and the House to try and ensure that at the end of the day, the status quo is not changed," he added. "I believe that there are discussions ongoing to how to adjust it accordingly."

Axelrod said that an agreement with ruling Democrats in Congress to remove the ban on taxpayer funding of abortions "can and will be worked through before it reaches his desk."

Axelrod's comments come after Obama's own remarks which made it appear he would favor removing or weakening the Stupak amendment.

"I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama told ABC News last week. "And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions." (Horseshit. Even with the Stupak-Pitts Amendment abortions will be allowed in the case of rape, incest or threats to the mother's live by the pregnancy. That is precisely why the USCCB had their heads up their asses when the signaled their enthusiastic support if the Stupak-Pitts Amendment was included.)

Obama appeared to side with abortion advocates who claim the Stupak amendment in the health care bill somehow changes the current status quo on government abortion funding.

“There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status quo” on abortion, Obama added. “And that’s the goal.”

Obama also sided with pro-abortion groups in saying he wanted to make sure “we're not restricting women’s insurance choices,” because he had promised that “if you're happy and satisfied with the insurance that you have, it’s not going to change.”

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, chided Obama for his comments.

"The only thing that will prevent the health care bill from being 'an abortion bill' is precisely the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, as the House of Representatives recognized by a 46-vote margin," he said.

"The phoniness of Obama's claim that he has been trying to preserve the 'status quo' on abortion policy should be evident to any observer by now. In reality, the White House and top Democratic congressional leaders have been working hard to create a national federal government health plan that would fund abortion on demand, just as Obama promised Planned Parenthood," Johnson added.

IMHO it's coming down to where the Catholic Church has to take a drastic stand. If the issue of abortion is on a par with another Holocaust (and it is) then just standing on the sidelines wringing our hands is no longer acceptable. By the election of such an avid supporter of abortion we have been placed in the position of either putting up or shutting up. That includes civil disobedience of various nonviolent kinds. This should be led by our bishops and priests, spoken of from the pulpits and placed in the public eye 24/7. Does the Church have more spine than it did in Nazi Germany?

You tell me.

Who's got some balls and isn't afraid to use 'em? If we're actually killing unborn humans and it is actually a sin that cries out to Heaven then we should damned well be doing something about it when the leadership of this nation is getting ready to make that act more easily affordable.