According to Thomas Peters, Nancy Pelosi’s emergency meeting this morning with the female Democratic House members was called after she met with Bart Stupak yesterday, and Stupak “didn’t cave to her demands.” There’s been chatter on Capitol Hill today that Pelosi excluded pro-life women from a meeting this morning, and a staffer for pro-life Democrat Marcy Kaptur tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s Daniel Halper that Kaptur did not attend this morning’s meeting, though the staffer didn’t specify why Kaptur didn’t attend.

It seems like Pelosi is trying to do one of two things: persuade the pro-choice women to cave in and accept the Stupak amendment, or persuade the pro-choice women who voted “no” last time to switch their votes to “yes” in order to protect abortion-on-demand.