Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, thinks she may have witnessed the exact moment the tipping point was reached in the congressional fight over health care and abortion.
She was in Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak’s congressional office on March 11 to talk to him about the upcoming health care bill vote. Stupak had been a stalwart ally of pro-life groups like hers, and a leader of pro-life House Democrats. Dannenfelser and others were counting on him to help hold the line against expansions of abortion coverage in the bill.
During their talk, a call came in for Stupak from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and prime mover of the health care bill. Stupak asked Dannenfelser to excuse him.
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