Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska was one of two pro-life Democrats to find himself declared a traitor by the pro-life movement for supporting the ObamaCare bill that funds abortions.

Despite the unanimous legal analysis of national pro-life organizations, some media outlets and political fact checking web sites indicating the health care reform legislation did not contain sufficient language to prevent abortion funding, Nelson voted for the bill anyway.

Now, the senator is using part of a ruling issued this week against a lawsuit seeking to overturn ObamaCare as a defense of his position.

In the case, brought by Liberty University against ObamaCare for various reasons including abortion, a federal judge appointed by pro-abortion former President Bill Clinton declared the ObamaCare bill free of any abortion funding concerns. Judge Norman Moon wrote that the healthcare law “contains strict safeguards at multiple levels to prevent federal funds from being used to pay for abortion services beyond those in cases of rape or incest or where the life of the woman would be endangered”...