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A System From Hell
The Nation ^ | April 9, 2009 | Kate Michelman

Posted on 04/18/2009 3:00:57 PM PDT by malkee

It was a crisp and brilliant autumn day last October when the medical and financial crises with which my family had successfully, if barely, coped for seven years became a catastrophe.

..My husband had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002, a year after our daughter was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident. His balance had deteriorated until he fell two or three times at home last summer. In the face of his diminishing physical condition, a single fall could result in disastrous injury. We scheduled an appointment with his neurologist in Washington.

We pulled up to the main entrance of the hospital after the two-hour drive from our home near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. My husband opened his door, grabbed the roof of the car and began to pull himself out as I walked around to help him. I was too late. In an instant--time slowed enough for me to see the danger but raced ahead too fast for me to reach him--he lost his grip and fell to the concrete, shattering his hip, breaking his femur and causing internal bleeding that kept him in the hospital for months

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: abortion; michelman; naral; socializedmedicine
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So everyone knows,I am a rabid pro-lifer.
1 posted on 04/18/2009 3:00:57 PM PDT by malkee
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For anyone who doesn’t know, Kate Michelman was the head of the National Abortion Rights Action League for two decades.


2 posted on 04/18/2009 3:05:12 PM PDT by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--two and a half years-- But I think about it every day.)
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It was a crisp and brilliant autumn day

"It was a dark and stormy night" works well too when writing crap.

3 posted on 04/18/2009 3:05:16 PM PDT by Jean S
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Another abortion ghoul-witch clamoring for socialized medicine.

She’s had tough times, I say tough luck.

Maybe it’s a little payback for her rabid support of infanticide.


4 posted on 04/18/2009 3:07:30 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Does this woman think the care her husband recieved would’ve been given had we had nationalized healthcare? If she does then she is a fool. With the injuries he had with the diease he’d already been diagozised more than likely healtcare like that would’ve been deemed too expensive and he would’ve died from the internal bleeding.


5 posted on 04/18/2009 3:11:50 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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So Kate Michelmann wants to reduce health care costs? Lets start with tort reform. When doctors no longer face $50k - $100k in malpractice premiums each year they’ll be better able to reduce their fees. Same for the hospitals.


6 posted on 04/18/2009 3:16:32 PM PDT by Twotone
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Are you a socialist pro-lifer?


7 posted on 04/18/2009 3:17:09 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
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So let's see, we have a semi-socialist medical system dominated by government right now. To make it better we need?:

A. More government

B. More free market

This patient won't be cured with more of the same poison.

8 posted on 04/18/2009 3:19:49 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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Kate Michelman?

I don’t understand. Why doesn’t she just kill her husband? He’s clearly defective. Why doesn’t she just abort...er, I mean, put him out of his misery?


9 posted on 04/18/2009 3:21:29 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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“Why doesn’t she just abort...er, I mean, put him out of his misery?”

Oh, don’t you mean a Post-Uterine Therapeutic Abortion?

I wonder that the NARALs don’t jump on that one.


10 posted on 04/18/2009 3:24:05 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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Yes, or as an old high school teacher of mine used to say:

“Retroactive abortion.”


11 posted on 04/18/2009 3:29:23 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: malkee

It is also obvious that what she really wants is FREE health care.


12 posted on 04/18/2009 3:31:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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She aborted a baby she couldn’t afford. Looks like she can no longer afford her husband. He’d better not sleep with both eyes closed.


13 posted on 04/18/2009 3:35:45 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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Well her story is a sad one and I feel awful about what happened to her husband and daughter


14 posted on 04/18/2009 3:36:37 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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That woman is the example of liberal selfishness. How dare she complain that Republicans didn’t join her in her pro-death activism.

Her poor husband seems to be on her wish list for the next one she exterminates out of her way.


15 posted on 04/18/2009 3:38:23 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/music/Gloria+Jane)
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To: malkee

Who isn’t in favor of health care reform? Governmental programs, such as medicare, are running out of money. Free market methods and sytems that place the individual responsible for his or her actions or inactions must be developed. If the government was the answer, we could point to a system else where and say we want that.


16 posted on 04/18/2009 3:43:07 PM PDT by DOGEY
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A System From Hell

She should know - I always assumed she was from there, too. Certainly, she's spent her adult life doing Satan's bidding.

17 posted on 04/18/2009 3:49:34 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (And he whispered, "Look behind you! Remember that you are but a man!")
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To: dennisw

If I believed in karma, this would be it.


18 posted on 04/18/2009 3:56:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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It really is sad what happened to her husband. I wish a broken hip on no one especially an old person. And her daughter paralyzed from horseback riding? What a cross to bear


19 posted on 04/18/2009 4:01:23 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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It could be God’s way of saying “you think an inconvenient baby is grief? I’ll show you what grief is.”


20 posted on 04/18/2009 4:03:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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