CONTEMPT FOR THE PRO-LIFERS – AT 6:30 P.M. ET:  As the Democrats engage in obscene deal making to get their health-care monstrosity through, they're making it clear that one group in their party is not wanted:

The pro-life Democrat leading the charge in the House against passage of the Senate health insurance reform bill said Friday that a key committee chairman told him that Democrats want abortions to be paid by a federally-funded nationalized health insurance system.

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who's been so far out in front of the debate about abortion coverage that he earned himself a primary challenger over it, said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., told him he wants to change current law that bans federal funding for abortion.

In an interview with Marquette, Mich., radio station WKQS' Mark & Walk morning show, Stupak described what he said was a conversation with Waxman about the Senate's version of the health care overhaul. That bill contains weaker language than the House-passed legislation, which includes a provision crafted by Stupak to ensure insurance companies that participate in a national exchange don't use federal money for abortion services.

"I gave him the language. He came back a little while later and said, 'But we want to pay for abortions.' I said, 'Mr. Chairman, that's -- we disagree. We don't do it now, we're not going to start.'

"'But we think we should,'" Stupak said Waxman told him.

Elsewhere, the pro-lifers are saying that they're being completely ignored.

Depending on which poll you trust, about half the country is pro-life.  That half will not be amused.

March 12, 2010