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Stupak Sold Vote For $1 Million Dollars, Not Abortion Letter

March 23rd, 2010 Posted By Pat Dollard.

The Spero Forum:

Democrat Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan, who held up passage of healthcare reform legislation that was finally approved in the House of Representatives on March 21, had been heralded as one of the rare members of his party to oppose abortion. However, Stupak finally acceded to demands from within his party, and scathing reviews by celebrities such as fellow Michigander and film-maker Michael Moore and The New York Times columnist Maureen Down, and agreed to support the final version of the bill that has become the center-piece of President Barack Obama’s administration. It was revealed that two days before Stupak agreed to support the bill, his district was awarded nearly $1 million in local airport improvements.

Abortion opponents are vowing to not let ostensible pro-life Democrats, including such pro-life stalwarts as Congressman Dale Kildee - who has been in Congress since 1976 - off the hook before the coming re-election in November 2010. Both Stupak and Kildee are Catholic, and both came under fire especially from pro-abortion and progressive opponents from within their party. Michael Moore, for example, wrote at his website that he would support a primary opponent to Stupak in case he did not come through with a vote for healthcare reform.

Stupaks’s Republican opponent in Michigan’s 1st District is Dr. Daniel Benishek. The surgeon saw traffic to his Facebook page grow quickly after the so-called Stupak Cave. He had about 3,000 “friends” earlier in the month. As of now, they number over 18,000.