Executives at NARAL and Now have said that they are incensed over the Obama executive order restricting abortion:
The president of the National Organization for Women said her group is “incensed” about the impasse-breaking deal between President Obama and a group of anti-abortion Catholic Democrats that seems likely to allow historic health-care reform legislation to pass the House later Sunday night, saying the planned presidential executive order “breaks faith with women.”
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NARAL Pro-Choice America shared NOW’s objections. “On a day when Americans are expected to see passage of legislation that will make health care more affordable for more than 30 million citizens, it is deeply disappointing that Bart Stupak and other anti-choice politicians would demand the restatement of the Hyde amendment, a discriminatory law that blocks low-income women from receiving full reproductive-health care,” NARAL President Nancy Keenan said in a statement.
You know, it was clear during the primaries that Barack Obama’s commitment to reproductive rights was tepid at best based on his record in the Illinois State Senate, and senior executives at Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW ignored this, and never pressed him on his record.
Of course, once he was the nominee, tepid and ineffectual support was better than that reproductive rights horror-show that is the Republican party.
That being said, being thrown under the bus was predictable, and whining now is just lame.