Posted on 11/17/2009 7:05:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Let's dispense with three fallacies swirling about the question of abortion coverage in health care reform. Two are being peddled by anti-abortion forces. One, perhaps the most relevant, is being pushed by the pro-choice side.
To be clear about where I am: Firmly pro-choice. Firmly opposed to the amendment from Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., which would effectively prevent women who purchase insurance on the newly created exchanges from obtaining abortion coverage.
But also: Respectful of the convictions of those who disagree. And, consequently, sympathetic to the notion that taxpayers should not have to pay for a procedure they believe is tantamount to murder.
The pending proposals on health reform entangle the government in insurance in a different way than it has been previously, and therefore call for a new, nuanced approach to the issue. Of course, nuanced and abortion don't generally occupy the same sentence. Hence, the fallacies about abortion coverage.
Fallacy No. 1: The Stupak amendment is necessary to maintain the status quo, in which no federal money is used for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or to preserve the life of the mother.
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I keep wishing that everyone who is pro choice had parents that were even more adamently pro choice.
My understanding of Obamacare is that he is shoring up the union health plans, because they are in serious trouble. A payoff, in other words.
This package isnt reform it’s destruction of American health Care.
The most ridiculous project ever proposed in America, costing billons and giving us much less than we have now.
Nancy Pelosi should be ridden out of town on a rail, preferably one with spikes in it.
No, it wouldn't. She could still buy abortion coverage from a private insurance company.
Even people on Medicare purchase supplemetal insurance plans for stuff Medicare doesn't cover.
It’s just more redistribution. Take away some coverage from those that have and give it to those that don’t. Then everyone has the same basic garbage coverage.
Perhaps the title should read: Don’t let the fight over reform hinder abortion. Sometime the truer meaning comes out with a little word reversal.
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