I know of no one who FAVORS abortion in this country, but the right to an abortion is memorialized in law, and this right is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Conservative, evangelical “TheoNazis” would never be able to strip this right, overturning Roe v. Wade, through a national referendum, so they have now tried to deploy a back-door subterfuge in the Healthcare Reform Bill to make it difficult, if not impossible, for private insurers to continue to provide coverage for abortion procedures. This would be an insidious, and dangerous, precedent. Next goal of the TheoNazis: no healthcare coverage for people who contract HIV/AIDS from extramarital or gay sex (even though this will doom many in the current GOP leadership); no healthcare coverage for people who are found to have looked at porn on the Web; no healthcare coverage for people with strange, foreign or Hispanic names; none for drinkers, gamblers, readers of the Koran, or anyone who becomes sick or disabled having engaged in activities the scolds on the right deem “immoral”.
Abortion rights are settled law. Change the law, or get the hell out of the way of desperately needed healthcare reform.
TheoNazis on the March: Healthcare only for the Righteous
November 10, 2009 by rantcaster