Pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupek says he believes they have the votes to defeat the health care bill in the House if it does not specifically exclude coverage for abortions (h/t Jill Stanek):

Glad to see some members of Congress taking such a stand in opposition to our Country federally funding the murder of unborn children. Now – to get them this dedicated to doing something about this murder being legal in our country to begin with…

Some of you may still be trying to understand how pro-lifers can claim that abortion is part of healthcare reform while the president and some members of congress, like Claire McCaskill, continue to insist that it is not. It is true that the word abortion is nowhere to be found in any of the proposed health care legislation. But that does not really matter as long as we as a country consider abortion to be a “safe, legal” medical procedure. National Right to Life does a very thorough job of explaining just how the proposed health care bills can, and most likely will, be interpreted to allow for abortion coverage unless language is written into the bills that specifically excludes abortion as a benefit.

Really, we’re not just making this stuff up. Time Magazine, FactCheck.org and the Associated Press confirm that abortion will be covered under the current health care proposals. Even some Democrats, like Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (see video) and Sen. Chris Dodd, say abortions will be covered.

Other helpful stuff from NRL: why the Hyde Amendment will not prevent government funding of abortion under H.R. 3200 and Rebutting the “Private Funds” Myth