“Look, Mr. Undecided Voter. There are two camps. Our goal is to make abortion safe, legal and as rare as possible. We do this by legalizing it and tackling the root causes: lack of child-care options and lack of sensible sex education, to name a few. That’s our camp. We feel like we’ve got a good, clear mission.

“The other camp? I’m not sure. They want to outlaw it — I think. But they don’t want to criminalize it, at least not to where they throw the mothers in jail. Even though they say it’s murder. Then again, some of them are OK with murdering providers. … Oh, and after they outlaw it, they consider their work to be done, even though it’s not.

“The forty members who stood strong with me through this whole deal, I think at least 15 will not vote for the bill no matter what, even if Stupak is adopted,” he said. “Then there might still have been ten to 15 who would vote for it even if we didn’t get our amendment.”

So enough to put it over the top?

“It should be,” he said.

Those are Bart Stupak’s own words. He said the bill would pass even if the amendment failed. Cooper is saying the opposite.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/07/house-health-care-vote-br_n_349468.html?page=3

“Progressives/Democrats/Liberals” roll their eyes at being corrected for using the term “pro-life” in the exact way in which those who – as WhitesCreek writes – force “meanspirited intrusions into women’s health issues” want them to. And they have been doing it for years – even after being made aware of the damage it does to our community.