Leftists have created their own abortion nightmare. They can whine all they want to about the eeeeevil pro-life movement and those aaaaawful conservatives, but the truth is that the Stupak amendment was only made possible by the liberal obsession with government-run health care. Consider this, Planned Parenthood and NARAL: Under any of the various Republican health care proposals, decisions about abortion coverage would have been left to the free market law of supply and demand.
Translation: You hate Republicans so much, but GOP health care proposals are the only ones that offer 100% protection of abortion choice.
This is not to suggest that the GOP has any great love affair with the pro-choice movement; as we all know, quite the opposite is true. What it does suggest is that pro-choicers have either been incredibly naive or outrageously hypocritical. Under government-run health care, with a government-run option and government subsidies for private insurance, there was always going to be greater governmental control over health care decisions. Either pro-choicers didn’t think this through in terms of abortion rights, or they thought the rules wouldn’t apply to them. Maybe they thought, for some reason, they would be exempt from government control over their health care choices.
Sorry gals, but in this brave new world that we call ObamaCare/PelosiCare, no one is exempt from government control over their health care choices. This week Bart Stupak is making decisions about your perceived right to an abortion. Next a panel of experts will be making a decision about whether breast cancer patients really need breast-conserving surgery. Mastectomy, after all, could be deemed more cost-effective. You see, when you want government-run health care, that kind of implies that you want the government to, well, run health care.
Now, if the Stupak amendment has made you think twice about having politicians accountable to public opinion managing your care versus a market driven by consumer demand, you do have options. You can join House Minority Leader John Boehner in calling on Congress to “scrap the whole bill and start over.” But I won’t hold my breath. We all know that this is about a radical leftist ideological agenda of which your movement is an integral part. It’s not really about women’s health, and I don’t doubt for a minute that you’ll prove us right again.
Cross-posted to my personal blog: Nate, Uncensored.
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Brilliant logic! NT
David123 (Diary) Tuesday, November 10th at 9:17PM EST (link)David123
Absolutely brilliant!!!....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, November 10th at 10:38PM EST (link)What the Stupak amendment showed me is that there are a HELL OF A LOT more pro-life members in the Congress then I thought!
I do not get these killers (naral etc.) that they should think that I and you should pay for MURDER….they may not like to call it that but damn it that is what abortion is!
I love the logic you have laid out in this being only the FIRST time that Congress will be deciding “healthcare” for women it most certainly will NOT be the last if this monstrosity.
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jerry39 (Diary) Tuesday, November 10th at 11:22PM EST (link)But the pro-choicers see single payer as the holy grail. Its about the abortion business and not the women. The average cost of an abortion remains about $400.00, which is roughly what it was in 1970. Abortion is most often not covered under insurance and so price is a function of supply and demand. As much as pro-aborts pretend that women will crawl through broken glass to get an abortion, the reality is that they will pay about $400 bucks for one. Price it much higher and you get a lot more adoptions. Pro-lifers are winning in many areas. The pro-aborts are running out of Doctors willing to do the procedure, the 40 days for life campaign has been closing shops down around the country, state laws are more stringent and more enforced, etc.
Single payer is the holy grail because suddenly IF abortion is covered not only can the providers get closer to the $3000 to $5000 that most surgeries cost, but demand will rise, and more Doctors will perform them.
Pro-aborts are not afraid of rationing of care like senior citizens are, becuase eliminating abortion coverage does not save money, beuase it is always cheapre than delivering and providing coverage for a baby that is allowed to live and mature into adulthood. 18 years or so of no return on that investment under single payer.
They don’t fear rationing, but they do now fear Stupak. You know when they are threatening to sick the IRS on the Catholic Bishops for petitioning the government, that they are scared.
I think abortion is a huge issue for the far left, it is a cornerstone to the agenda, and they will do everything in their power and pull every fake amendment possible to make sure it is covered under national health care. The pro-aborts are claiming that Stupak undoes 20 years of pro-choice victory, but this is mostly a lie becuase most women pay for their abortions already. The reality is that single payer without Stupak undoes 20 years of modest pro-life victory. Once the federal government controls health care it could not only increase hte profit and number of abortions, but it could pre-empt state laws regulating abortion within Roe, and it could subvert consious clauses that allow Dr.’s to refuse to perform abortions. They want this bad and any victory is only temporary, because they will fight until the last planned parenthood closes its doors.
I think this is very good ground on which to fight. I am not the first to say it, but Stupak could undue the whole thing. On the other hand, but I think less likely, it could allow a bill to pass.
One big problem with Stupak is that if we ever got to single payer with Stupak intact – would it be found constitutional?