As I wrote Friday (and earlier on March 9), all it took at the end was for the President and the Speaker to induce Congressman Stupak to accept a fig leaf pledge that funds under Obamacare will not fund abortion. He gratefully accepted such a fig leaf--an "Executive Order"--today.
How likely is it that the Executive Order will make any lasting difference? Yuval Levin, who served on the policy staff of President George W. Bush, tells his readers, not much.
Only a legislative fix would have mattered.
The supposedly anti-abortion Democrats, in the end, couldn't take the heat.
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