{"id":641968,"date":"2010-01-25T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74659"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:59:31","slug":"did-the-%e2%80%98stupak-bomb%e2%80%99-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/641968","title":{"rendered":"Did the \u2018Stupak Bomb\u2019 Explode?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the health care reform bill passed the House in November, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/67491\/gop-sees-win-win-as-stupak-splits-dems\">I reported that anti-abortion rights groups thought<\/a> they&#8217;d pulled a number on Democrats by backing Rep. Bart Stupak&#8217;s (D-Mich.) anti-abortion funding amendment instead of demanding that conservative members kill the bill outright. In a Friday interview with CNSNews, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/60309\">looked back and agreed <\/a>with the pro-life activists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I want to give great credit to the pro-life Republicans and Democrats who took a stand in the House of Representatives on the traditional language that was encompassed first in the Hyde Amendment and then in the Stupak-Pitts Amendment \u2013 so, I think it\u00a0played a critical role.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-74659\"><\/span>There was some anger from libertarian-minded activists that Republicans didn&#8217;t kill the bill back in November &#8212; pro-life groups argued that Democrats would have found the votes anyway, and that Supak-Pitts would cause trouble for the majority down the line. It looks like a smart strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the health care reform bill passed the House in November, I reported that anti-abortion rights groups thought they&#8217;d pulled a number on Democrats by backing Rep. Bart Stupak&#8217;s (D-Mich.) anti-abortion funding amendment instead of demanding that conservative members kill the bill outright. In a Friday interview with CNSNews, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) looked back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H0k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}