Stupak language appears in new bill … sans Stupak

(By Ed Morrissey; Hot Air) - The new ObamaCare bill will mandate funding for abortions if Congress ever fails to pass the Hyde Amendment, which has to get a new vote every year during the budget cycle. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) had led a coalition of pro-life Democrats in the House last fall that demanded and got an amendment to the bill that would have made the restrictions against federal funding of abortion permanent as part of the new law, but the Senate stripped out the language and Stupak and most of his allies settled instead for a meaningless executive order. Rep. Joseph Pitts has now offered a new bill that restores the Stupak language to ObamaCare, collecting 57 co-sponsors — but only a few of Stupak’s coalition, and not Stupak himself...