Stupak: I'll Kill Bill If Abortion Amendment Goes (VIDEO)

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) pledged on Tuesday that he would kill health care reform legislation if his anti-abortion amendment is taken out.

"They're not going to take it out," Stupak said on Fox News. "If they do, health care will not move forward ... We won fair and square."

Asked about a comment from White House senior adviser David Axelrod this weekend suggesting that the language should be adjusted, Stupak was dismissive. "That is why Mr. Axelrod is not a legislator," he said. "He doesn't really know what he is talking about."

Stupak said 10 to 20 Democrats would join him in voting against the bill if his language was stripped out. The amendment would bar any insurance plan that is purchased with government subsidies from covering abortions.

On "The Rachel Maddow Show" Monday night, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said that the language restricting abortion would not be in the Senate health care bill.

"I don't think that it's a threat at all," Brown said on MSNBC. "There aren't more than four or five Democratic senators that I would say are anti-choice. There are at least, I think, two Republican senators who are pro-choice."

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Comments

[Whinger]

10:31 AM on 11/19/2009

You mean you're going to abort the health care bill if you don't get your way!

[SilenceDoGood1776]

08:25 AM on 11/19/2009

though liberal families' incomes average 6 % higher than those of conservati­ve families, conservati­ve headed households give on average, 30% more to charity than the average liberal-he­aded household (1600.00 per year vs. 1227.00)
Looks like conservati­ves put their own money and time to charities. Liberals want to use some one elses.

[cybexg]

10:38 AM on 11/19/2009

Funny, look at the federal support spending in the red states vs the blue states...s­eems like the red states (conservat­ive states) are living off of other's money.

wait...sry­...wasn't I supposed to use real facts?

[Timothy2700]

08:14 AM on 11/19/2009

VOTE HIM OUT!!

[BKFactor]

06:24 AM on 11/19/2009

I was thinking about the Stupak-Pit­ts amendment and the role of the Catholic Bishops in all this.

It's not enough that Catholic priests and bishops controlled and ruined the lives of many young altar boys; now they want to control the lives and bodies of women.

I remember a young lady who made an interestin­g comment here on the HuffP. MaryMary gave a reply to another person who was pro Stupak-Pit­ts that made a lot of sense. It concerned what we now publicly fund for male enhancemen­ts and Viagra, etc.

Well, I've asked my progressiv­e friends, and I will ask other progressiv­e women representa­tives to look up every procedure that men receive related to their reproducti­ve system, etc.

I (and I hope others) will object to any public funds being used to pay for any pills or enhancemen­ts, etc. for men. I urge you all on the HuffP to do the same.

The hypocrisy of these men is beyond belief.

[sviolette]

02:59 AM on 11/19/2009

Hopefully if he does manage to kill the bill it will also kill his career.

[Patriot86]

06:22 AM on 11/19/2009

He has been revealed as a C streeter, the Dems will not support him...a legend in his own mind.

[cyndeewi]

07:52 AM on 11/19/2009

Stupak is running in a very conservati­ve area. They will vote for him again. I just wish he would tell run as the republican that he is.

[notb observer]

02:40 AM on 11/19/2009

Hey Stupak !
While you were out being all "anti-abor­tion" and everything­,
the Fish and Wildlife Service called and they want their ferret back.
You know, the one that's living on your head...

[dems08]

11:32 PM on 11/18/2009

that was yesterday

Today is Wednesday - he's backed down from saying he'll block it going to the floor...

Right?

[mistlesuede]

11:20 PM on 11/18/2009

Perhaps his mother should have considered the medical procedure.

[Callyson]

11:01 PM on 11/18/2009

What is this guy, 12 years old? (Or is that question offensive to 12 year olds?)
I mean really, his rant that "We won fair and square" only shows his ignorance about politics. Stupak and his ilk won *one* battle in an ongoing legislativ­e process: that hardly means everyone should call it quits now. The people who oppose health care reform for any reason (read: the Reeps) are not going to call it a day because they lost fair and square, so why should opponents of the abortion amendment cave in? Grow up, Stupak...

[supertim]

10:32 PM on 11/18/2009

its time to "scozzafav­a" this right wing neocon jerk pretending to be a democrat, actually you can thank rahm emanuel for stupak's ascension, but anyways, its up to progressiv­es to challenge this jerk in the next primary with a more reasonable candidate

[supertim]

10:29 PM on 11/18/2009

if this C-Street Talibangel­ical assclown can overturn 30+ years of establishe­d law, namely Roe v. Wade, then the entire american legal system would be at risk, not just the rights of women over reproducti­ve control

Study: Stupak Amendment Will Eliminate Abortion Coverage 'Over Time For All Women'
http://tin­y.cc/EiNBL

[supertim]

10:24 PM on 11/18/2009

STUPAK IS AS STUPAK DOES

[gaja]

03:43 AM on 11/19/2009

fanned!

[Matthew King]

08:06 AM on 11/19/2009

his destiny? McDonalds.

[Probus]

09:39 PM on 11/18/2009

Bart Stupak should not make false threats to his own leadership­. Plus he has no control on what happens in the reconcilia­tion process in the conference committee between the House and the Senate. Stupak's amendment is unfair to women and should not be in the Senate bill and it isn't.

[cornelison]

10:51 PM on 11/18/2009

Could there be another primary in his district??­?

[msjimmied]

08:57 PM on 11/18/2009

I think the last two alphabets in his name should be "ID"

[Okieborn]

07:51 PM on 11/18/2009

Mr. Stupak !!
Go To He** !!