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Family Security Matters » Publications » An Eye-Opening Account of Health Care Lobbying: "Bill Donohue of the Catholic League claims in a press release that President Obama has double-crossed the Catholic bishops on the matter of abortion funding in the health care bill. “The Senate has just completed its version, and it contains nothing like the language of the [anti-abortion] Stupak amendment” in the House bill, notes Donohue.

The implication is that Obama favored the funding ban in order to get the bill out of the House and now opposes it. The bishops have been “betrayed,” Donohue claims.

But who played into whose hands?

One of the sharpest critics of the political left on the scene today, Donohue may be failing to confront the left-wing and even socialist tendency in his own church. The shocking truth is that the bishops, their lobbyists, and the Vatican itself worked hand-in-glove with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a pro-abortion Catholic. In fact, according to one sensational report, Catholic lobbyists were “summoned” into Pelosi’s office to make a deal.

Information about Catholic lobbying on Capitol Hill during House deliberations over health care legislation has been leaking out in bits and pieces. Now, however, Julia Duin of the Washington Times has put it all together. Rather than feeling betrayed by Obama, her extraordinary article describes “jubilation” by the bishops and their lobbyists over the health care legislation as they meet this week in Baltimore, Maryland, for a conference."