If the Democrats ever did bring up an abortion-fix bill in the Senate that applied Stupak language to Obamacare, I’d urge all pro-lifers to support it–and I think, in the end, that they would support it. I don’t even think pro-life Republicans should bluff about not supporting it in order to keep up the pressure on pro-life Democrats. They don’t need to.
I just don’t think there are enough pro-lifers in the Senate to win the day, especially once Obamacare is already the law of the land and pro-choice liberals have no incentive to deal.
Update: McCormack gets this right: “The only way Stupak could get an ironclad guarantee that the Senate won’t pull out the rug from underneath him is for the Senate to act first. But, even if all 39 Republicans opposed to abortion-funding in the Senate voted for a corrections bill to add in the Stupak amendment, 21 Democrats would have to join them. That’s probably not going to happen. Only 7 Democratic senators voted for the Senate’s version of the Stupak amendment in December. Who are the 14 who will flip to approve the Stupak amendment this time around?” I’d add that the calendar doesn’t favor this scenario, either. . . . And what makes us think Obama would sign the bill?