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Showing Original Post only (View all)anti-choice Democrats are the reason Nancy Pelosi was House Speaker in 2006 and 2008 [View all]
Since apparently history started yesterday in some of these debates, let's go all the way back to 2009 when Speaker Nancy Pelosi was shepherding the Affordable Care Act through the House.
A major issue in that was whether abortions could be funded using federal tax credits (btw, single payer and abortion will be an exponentially more explosive situation).
Pelosi brought to the House floor a vote to prohibit the use of federal funds "to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion" except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother.
64 Democrats voted for that bill, which was heavily opposed by NARAL, the ACLU and other progressive organizations.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll884.xml
Democrats at the time held 256 seats in the House (ah the good old days).
Subtract 64 from 256 and you get a number much, much smaller than the number needed to control Congress. It's the difference between Nancy Pelosi and Paul Ryan determining spending levels for Medicaid, food stamps, and the EPA. And for any and all bills dealing with abortion, equal pay, birth control, etc.
The difference between Obamacare and Trumpcare. Between funding for Planned Parenthood and defunding Planned Parenthood.
One does not have to be anti-choice to be able to do simple electoral math.