When they shriek of “baby killers”, realize they aren’t talking about the babies who have been born.
Posted by: Donna
So the health care bill passed and I’ll have a post about that soon (along with the ones I’ve promised about immigration and other topics), but I wanted to address Gov. Brewer’s statement that she plans to join other states in a lawsuit against the bill.
The federal health reform plan would expand Medicaid, mandate coverage and penalize those who fail to get or offer insurance. It also would restrict insurance companies from barring coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
The controversy over the mandate is one thing but the objection to the Medicaid expansion and ban on preexisting condition exclusions/recissions is just plain mean. Brewer’s “courageous” litigiousness against HCR will not protect her from the wrath of the Republican base over the sales tax referendum that she owns. And the irony is that her stance will probably lead to more abortions.
Increasing health-care coverage is one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of abortions — a fact proved by years of experience in other industrialized nations. All the other advanced, free-market democracies provide health-care coverage for everybody. And all of them have lower rates of abortion than does the United States.
This is not a coincidence. There’s a direct connection between greater health coverage and lower abortion rates. To oppose expanded coverage in the name of restricting abortion gets things exactly backward. It’s like saying you won’t fix the broken furnace in a schoolhouse because you’re against pneumonia. Nonsense! Fixing the furnace will reduce the rate of pneumonia. In the same way, expanding health-care coverage will reduce the rate of abortion.
Expanded coverage would also lead to fewer deaths of mothers, fathers, and babies. But they’re not fetuses so they don’t count.
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But what about Massachusetts? Us liberals have dominated that state for decades and it’s a barren wasteland of furries and shrieking teabaggers whose health care rates have been going down since that socialist RomneyCare went into place– when will we as liberals own up to the fact that our socialist anti-corporate-daddyhood policies are making Baby George Washington cry?
Why isn’t anyone debating me on the merits of my argument?
No one cares.