Stupak to Stephanopoulos: I'm Prepared to Vote No on Health Care

Personally, I'm disgusted that he believes he's doing the right thing.

Rep. Stupak shows very clearly how this bill uses government funds to cover abortions. Abortion has no place in health care bills. He will do us all a great service by stopping it.

Is there a primary challenger to this monster?

libhomo - Connie Saltonstall has just indicated she plans to run against Stupak: http://www.freep.com/article/201003091411/NEWS15/100309040

My name is Scott Withers. I am a Pro-Choice Democrat competing against Dale Kildee in Michigan's 5th U.S. Congressional district primary.

Dale Kildee is one of Bart Stupak's "dirty dozen" which are opposing Health Care because of their ultra-conservative views on a woman's right to make her own decision in regards reproductive rights.

Kildee, like Stupak, both receive a "0" from NARAL.

I am an staunch supporter of women's reproductive rights and will fight to protect those rights in the U.S. Congress.

I need your help to defeat Dale Kildee. Women in mid-Michigan have not had an opportunity to vote for a Pro-Choice candidate since 1976.

Please make a donation to my campaign via my secure Actblue.com account. A link is included below.

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/23580

Thank you for your support of my campaign and for women's rights.

Sincerely,

Scott Withers

As hard as it may be, try to imagine for a minute that you are someone who strongly believes that an unborn child is entitled to the same rights and legal protections as those who are born. You know that abortion is legal and you know that over 1,000,000 abortions take place annually in the U.S. and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.

Bear with me know. Keep imagining that you are pro-life with the same intense emotions and beliefs that you feel and uphold as someone who is pro-choice. Then imagine that against your will, your government decides it is going to force you to start paying, via your taxes, for abortion services or abortion insurance coverage under the new health care reform bill. Surely, you can imagine how upsetting this would be. Surely, you can feel some empathy for your fellow Americans, neighbors and possibly even family members who are pro-life.

I think we need to stop demonizing each other (and I know both sides do it) and remember that both sides are standing up for what they deeply believe. We need more respect, more empathy and more real dialogue.

Lynne,
Would you defend or tolerate the KKK, because the truely believe that blacks are a lower life form and deserve to be slaves or killed? How about gay-bashers? How about Hitler? I mean the man really did believe that Jews were evil and he was right in killing them.

Your comment doesn't have ground, and is to me repulsive. If we do not fight people like him then we are no better than him. There is a right and a wrong. Period. Simple. He Is wrong. This is not about his *personal opinion, this is about wanting to force Millions of others to live by his views.

Would you tolerate a racist representative? Ofcourse not, cause lord knows theres a difference in racism, sexism, and homophobia. This is a horrid attitude, and unfortunatley a very very common one.

He can believe abortion is wrong, fine with me, but the world does not revolve around him and his wants and views. He has no right to enforce that onto all of American women. Abortion should never be political, it's personal, and not something someone else deserves to make the decisions on. I *believe a person like him should never ever breed, but i'm not going to castrate the man.

What we want is the freedom to choose, choose abortion, choose marriage, etc. What they want is to force you to live by their beliefs on what you should or shouldn't do, we are forcing nothing on them by wanting the freedom of choices in our lives. We want freedom, they want a dictorship, and they're winning, by far, and the last thing we need to do is tolerate them.