Will Betsy Markey, John Salazar, Michael Bennet vote for pro-abortion ObamaCare?

During last week’s seven-hour health talkathon at Blair House, President Obama refused to discuss the pro-abortion provisions in his health bill, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lied about them. This means that Colorado Reps. Betsy Markey and John Salazar will have to decide whether they want to take on voters who don’t want to pay for abortions as required in ObamaCare. Regardless of how you feel about abortion, the health bill could be killed by abortion politics.

Markey is from the very conservative CD-4 and is likely to vote no as she did on the House bill. Salazar is in a more liberal CD-3 and he is a strong advocate of voting against his constituents’ views on the health bill. Appointed Senator Michael Bennet is betting his fundraising successes will let him vote as the Washington, DC, insider that he is and still win in November. So he’ll still vote yes on reconciliation and on ramming the hated health bill down the throats of Coloradans. He knows what’s good for the Colorado bumpkins he pretends to represent. Click on head to see Charmaine Yoest’s impact graphs:

The facts are that the president’s proposal would create the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade;

It could require private health insurance plans to cover abortion; it changes existing law by allowing federally-subsidized plans to pay for abortions;

It imposes a first-ever abortion tax on people who use the health Exchange;

It imposes a requirement on states that forces them to stop subsidized plans from funding abortions.

And it fails to protect the conscience rights of health care providers who do not want to participate in abortions.

That is what the president’s plan has in common with the Senate bill. But his plan actually goes further than the Senate bill on Life. It calls for $11 billion for “community health centers” – many of which like Planned Parenthood, provide abortions. There is no language to restrict the use of this money for abortion.

It is the height of irony that the man who promised that “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place” has in fact put forth the most pro-abortion proposal in U.S. History.

That’s a stubborn fact. As is this one: on Twitter, the new hashtag for health care reform is #KillBill.

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