Luetkemeyer Accuses Stupak of Selling 'Self' & 'Soul'

Speaking with KSSZ's Mike Ferguson this afternoon, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer said Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and other Democratic Congressman who oppose abortion sold "themselves" and "their souls" when they voted for the new health care law. "It's a sad thing to see them sell themselves and their souls for something that's a piece of paper that's not going to be worth anything," he said at the end of the interview.

This abortion debate is so exhausting. The Senate bill did not include federal financing for abortion.  That's why the Catholic Health Association, an important group of nuns and others supported the legislation.  And before Luetkemeyer and others get totally bent out of shape with the President's executive order, it's worth remembering that the National Organization for Women was "incensed" by the move. 

How Luetkemeyer would be disappointed with something that infuriated NOW is beyond me.

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Patrick Tuohey at The Missouri Record takes issue with this post, and notes that Fired Up! writers have used variants of the phrase, "selling one's soul," in the past. 

My frustration with Luetkemeyer's statement isn't so much with the language -- it's that I think he's wrong.  There isn't federal funding for abortion in the new law, and now there's now an executive order barring taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions.

To be sure, I've written my fair share about over-the-top rhetoric, but that wasn't the source of my concern in this instance.