We're going to take up early I think the Stupak language, no funds shall be spent on abortion, as a separate bill early on. And we will look at these individual pieces to see if we can't have the thing crumble.

Remember how we are supposed to defund the bill?  Defund and repeal is the mantra.

Republicans in general are at a disadvantage when using the language.  All too often, they use words and phrases that have been coined by liberal Democrats.  But Congressman Upton decided to use Stupak's name instead of say, "The Hyde language," or "The Pitts amendment" and it is terribly grating.  Why give credit to the actions of a  Democrat who completely angered the entire nation,  shining a light of truth on the pro-abortion stance of the Democrat party?  It makes it sound as though Stupak was serious about stopping federal funding of abortion.

Stupak is thought of as a complete traitor to the anti-abortion movement, so much so, that the National Right to Life rescinded their near-20 year endorsement of him.

I have a problem with even inserting the language, because we are going to repeal this law.  Upton ran on repealing the law, and the promise of repealing it is one of the reasons Dan Benishek won in Michigan's First.  I cannot understand why we would make it better and then repeal it.  I am very anti-abortion, way more so than Upton, who has continually funded Planned Parenthood, and refused to recognize the murder of a pregnant woman as a double murder.  So, my point is not to encourage the funding of abortion, but to show that the executive order is useless, and will keep Stupak's name mud.

Could it be that Congressman Upton is interested in helping his former Michigan counterpart?