A certain Republican congressman yelled “You lie!” during President Obama’s

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9/9/09 remarks on illegal immigrants during his speech to a joint session of congress on health care. The shout, apologized for an hour later, had the press off and running.

Had there been no yelling, perhaps the president’s next statement, all but drowned out in the uproar, would have received the attention it deserved. Maybe.

The president said,

And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up — under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions…..

Really? The president is being roundly criticized from many quarters for that whopper.

Consider first Douglas Johnson, legislative director, National Right to Life Campaign:

“Barack Obama needs to learn that the mere repetition of a verbal formula does not change reality. The reality is that the Obama-backed House bill would explicitly authorize the federal government insurance plan to pay for elective abortions and would explicitly authorize subsidies for…

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Standing apart from the avalanche of news stories, editorials, blogs, spin, misinformation and disinformation re the House and Senate’s rapidly morphing health care reform plan(s), was a recent, feisty, fast-paced one-hour TV interview with St. Louis-based Sr. Carol Keehan, President and CEO of the Catholic Health Association.

Joining Sr. Keehan on EWTN’s The World Over Live last Friday was American Life League President Judie Brown and the show’s host, Raymond Arroyo.

The questions put to Sr. Keehan were many. Among them:

Is the official Catholic response a confused one, with the USCCB support at odds with Cardinal Rigali’s non-negotiable abortion challenge?

Why won’t CHA explicitly demand that all assaults on the human person be excluded from any proposed health plan?

Sister Keehan stated that “One non-negotiable is abortion”. How willing is she to leverage that statement? [We learned today of Planned Parenthood' confidence of abortion playing a central role in the final version of the health care bill.]

Are the…

Bishop Martin D. Holley, a black priest and Auxilliary bishop of Washington, D.C.,  responded quickly to a recent Guttmacher Institute report indicating U.S. black women have abortions at five times the rate of white women.

Bishop Holley serves as Chair of the Sub-Committee on African American Affairs and he is a member of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

Bishop Holley said,

As an African American, I am saddened by evidence that Black women continue to be targeted by the abortion industry. The loss of any child from abortion is a tragedy, but we must ask: Why are minority children being aborted at such disproportionate rates?

Over 80 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority neighborhoods…..

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, began the ‘Negro Project’ to reduce the Black population…..

My brothers and sisters, we can overcome abortion in our nation.

Let us defend our community…

So much ink has been spilled over Sarah Palin in the last couple of days — 64 links alone in today’s Morning Edition we sent to Catholic leaders — one could be forgiven for imagining Democrats Obama, Biden and Pelosi heaving a sigh of relief that the reporters are shining the abortion pro-life spotlight on someone else for once.

We now know Sarah Palin is a member of Feminists for Life  and thanks to Mollie over at GetReligion we learn that the Barracuda is a Believer.

Mollie also has complaints — surprise — about reporters being quick to attack Ms. Palin and getting their stories wrong.

And also getting it wrong, lefty bloggers are going after Palin’s daughter….

Ever the gentleman, Joe Biden reacts to his V.P. counterpart by making a sexist remark…. Biden reminds me once again that perhaps the reason leftist women think men are sexists is that the only ones they know are Democrats…..

And,…