U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., will not be representing the vast majority of his constituents well if he votes in favor of a health care bill scheduled to go to the House floor within a few days — perhaps this weekend. In fact, supporting ultra-liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the bill would amount to placing political considerations ahead of the interests of those of us in northern West Virginia. As this was being written, Pelosi and her cronies were scrambling to line up enough votes to pass the bill. Their hope was that they could be assured of the necessary margin in time for a vote today or Sunday. But in order to accomplish that, the liberals were making substantive changes in the enormous document, a bill that was 1,990 pages long when introduced. According to The Associated Press, two critical changes involved “finalizing language to bar federal funding of abortion and resolving a flare-up over the treatment of illegal immigrants in the legislation that had Hispanic lawmakers up in arms.” Both items have long histories in the debate over health care. Time and time again, Pelosi and company have claimed that taxpayer funding of abortions would not be permitted. And time and time again, examination of health care bills has disclosed that no such ban actually had been written into them. Why should anyone expect anything about that to be different now? That ought to concern Mollohan, who has said he is a staunch pro-life advocate.