To some members of the House, this Capps ammendment and Obama's lying on the issue is enough to save face.  Fortunately, Stupak doesn't think so.  He's still refusing to vote for the bill the way it is now, and refuses to vote for any bill that doesn't explicitly ban all federal money for abortion.  According to a recent Time article:

The health-care reform proposed by House Democrats, if enacted, would in fact mark a significant change in the Federal Government's role in the financing of abortions. "It would be a dramatic shift," says Representative Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who has vowed to oppose the bill because of how it would affect abortion.

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In the meantime, Stupak says that Obama's statements during recent public events signal one of two things: either he does not fully understand the current House bill, which Stupak maintains has the effect of publicly funding abortion, or "if he is aware of it, and he is making these statements, then he is misleading people."

Look, whatever else I can say about him, that takes some guts.  He's basically accusing Obama of lying (sure, I do it too, but I'm not a Dem Congressman...).  And he's not taking the typical Congress BS compromises for an answer.  Like I said, integrity.

And when it comes to an issue like abortion, such integrity is absolutely vital.  We're talking about innocent human lives here; not mere trivialities like money or jobs or health care.  In terms of moral imperative, nothing else comes close.  Unfortunately, the debate surrounding abortion sometimes seems to forget that, forget that the reason we care so much is because we're talking about innocent children being slaughtered.  A crude way of saying it, yes, but it's what the pro-life movement believes.  One's electoral and political position should be irrelevent to the debate, and yet all too often politicians will compromise or ignore their conscience to gain power.

So to make this a huge issue, to publicly denounce Obama's statements and publicly attacking his party rather than just voting against it and wishing the issue goes away, he's doing his part to give the abortion issue the supreme importance it deserves.  While I don't know how it'll affect his electoral position (probably irrelevent; he seems to be pretty entrenched), it certainly doesn't endear him to advancing within his party.  Yet, let's face it, some things are more important.

Thus, in a grand spirit of bipartisanship, I salute his actions so far.  But I note that the fight is not yet over.  Stupak and the rest of the Pro-Life Caucus need to continue to make a stink about this.  So do the rest of us who are pro life.  And the stink needs to be an all or nothing deal.  He needs to publicly fight Pelosi and Obama and not fall for any watered down amendments.  Hopefully I won't have to recant my praise for him in the future.