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Health Care
Catholic Lawmakers, Health Experts Split With Bishops And Support Health Reform Bill
Evan McMorris-Santoro | March 18, 2010, 4:20PM
Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI) and Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-OH)
A pair of anti-choice Representatives joining several Catholic health care experts and theologians to dismiss claims by some in the anti-abortion community that a vote for the Senate health care reform bill is a vote to invite government funding of abortion.
On the call, organized by the group Faith In Public Life, Reps. Charlie Wilson (D-OH) and Dale Kildee (D-MI) said that a vote for the bill would not run afoul of their anti-choice views. In fact, they and the experts said, the bill is likely to decrease the number of abortions performed in America and make insurance coverage for the procedure less common.
"I will be 81 years old in September," Kildee, who announced yesterday that he'll vote yes on the Senate bill, said. "Certainly at this point in my life I'm not going to change my mind and support abortion and I'm not going to risk my eternal salvation."
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Afghanistan
No Longer Charlie Wilson's War, Former Congressman Says He Feels Obama's Pain on Afghanistan Decision
Christina Bellantoni | October 7, 2009, 2:09PM
Fmr. Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-TX)
It's not quite the "bombshell" that Buzzflash calls it, but former Rep. Charlie Wilson opined on Afghanistan in an interview with the Scranton Times.
Wilson (D-TX), whose role in the covert operation in Afghanistan later inspired the film "Charlie Wilson's War," said he thinks President Obama is in a "very tough situation" when making his decision on whether to send more troops.
"It's probably best to make a calculated withdrawal. ...If I were the president, I'm not sure what I'd do. I'd probably shut it down, rather than lose a lot of soldiers and treasure," Wilson, now 76, told the newspaper in advance of an event Thursday at the Scranton Cultural Center.
He said the U.S. is being viewed as an occupier and he worries the war could be "another Vietnam."
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