"Baby Killer" Democrat: How is This So?

President Obama won Representative Bart Stupak, an anti-abortion Democratic congressman, over with his health care bill after he promised to keep existing limits on abortion, according to cnn.com. This may have won over Representative Stupak, but it riled up at least one member of the crowd as the person shouted out the accusation of "Baby Killer."

Who did the unidentified person aim the derogatory statement toward, though? President Obama? Stupak? All involved? Too, why do we not have a face/name for this unidentified person? Wouldn't anyone who felt so strongly about something identify himself/herself? Or, is this just this person's way of behaving, by issuing accusations from the protection of the crowd. (Speak up if you have something to say, right?)

So, Representative Stupak let his concerns be known to President Obama, and President Obama addressed Stupak's concerns in a fair and dignified manner, rather than discounting these concerns over abortion funding. Both men are sensible men because they both know that lack of funding will not stop abortion, but lack of funding will not promote it, either. What more can they do? Women do have the right to abortion.

Just because Representative Stupak wants to give millions of Americans healthcare, this makes him a "Baby Killer?" How so? He knows that abortion will continue; he just doesn't want our government to fund abortion, and President Obama gave him that, didn't he? So, what's all the accusations for? What did the unidentified shouter of such negative language hope to gain? Speak up, man (or woman)!

Could it be that the unidentified shouter has a different agenda or a bigger agenda than what the accusations claim? Maybe the shouter doesn't like President Obama or the idea of the health care bill, altogether. Maybe the shouter just used the accusation of "Baby Killer" to give an emotional argument, hoping that such an emotional argument would make a difference. It didn't, and it doesn't because the argument isn't even logical.

For Representative Stupak to stand up for his views on abortion is fair. For President Obama to address Representative Stupak's concerns is also just. Both got what they wanted. Neither can stop abortion, but the government won't fund abortion, except in the cases that are already defined. So, Representative Stupak gets his limits, and President Obama gets his healthcare bill. Nothing has changed in regards to abortion, so what's the big fuss?

*Both parties won, didn't they?

Resource

cnn.com, March 22, 2010, "'Baby Killer' shouted at Democrat after bill's passage"