Who pays for abortion?
I am truly sick of all the pandering to the right-wingnuts that is going on in the government these days. The debate on health care reform has gotten ridiculous with wingnuts claiming that the reforms will ‘kill your grandma’ by forcing older folks to submit to euthanasia or that senior citizens will be denied treatments they need so that the government can afford to pay for abortions. And it is fascinating that the Obama administration is quick to debunk the ‘kill your grandma’ myth, but will only skirt around the issue of a public health system paying for abortion.
I wish these people would just get over themselves. Millions of these wingnuts pay premiums to private insurance companies that pay for abortions. And while some of them undoubtedly would like to force the private companies to stop paying for abortions, it doesn’t stop them from paying their insurance premiums. This attitude of ‘I don’t want to pay for anything I don’t use or believe in’ is just ridiculous. After all, Jehovah’s Witnesses, who don’t believe in blood transfusions, aren’t saying that public funding shouldn’t be used to pay for other people’s blood transfusions, are they? and we would laugh in their faces if they even suggested it. Scientologists don’t believe in vaccinations for their children, but they aren’t insisting that public funding should not pay for those either. Why should abortion be any different? Abortion is a safe medical procedure that nearly half the women in this country will need access to at some point in their lives. To deny women coverage of a medical procedure because of your moral beliefs is discrimination. Pure and simple.
I wish the government would quit tip-toeing around this issue and just come right out and say: health care for everyone people. The majority of people in this country believe women should have access to abortion, why are we even listening to these wingnuts? Why does their opinion, their morality get so much air time? Hell, I’m even writing about them now.
The truth is that we all pay for women’s abortions now. Having abortion be covered by a national insurance system would not represent a significant change in what happens now. I wish those rightwing fundamentalists would just grow up and leave the rest of us alone.
Published August 25, 2009 . Filed under: Abortion, Politics, Women's Health
Abortion is wrong.
Reasons for it are self centered, and the ultimate effect is the destruction of an innocent human life.
Abortion is the greatest calamity in human history. More innocent lives have been taken from it than all wars and genocide combined.
One in 4 unborn children are terminated via abortion. In the US alone, the total is 50 million to date–1 Billion worldwide.
Be brave. Do what is right
Choose life.
Ok, Mr. Live. I’m allowing you this one comment just for the opportunity to respond. If you have something more intelligent to say beyond “abortion is wrong,” I might allow that as well but I’m not going to get into a debate with someone who declares the reasons for abortion are ’self centered.’ Because if you had one iota of experience with making a decision about what to do with an unwanted pregnancy, you would know that your statement is patently untrue.
Abortion may not be the right decision for everyone, but what IS wrong are people like you trying to shove your morality down the rest of our throats and deny women the fundamental right to determine the course of their own lives and to make the decisions that are best for them and their families. By far the majority of women who choose to have abortions do so because they want to take good care of their children who are ALREADY born.
As for the greatest calamity in human history. Grow up dude. There is a world of difference between ending the life of a 5 week old fetus and ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children just because they happen to live on the wrong side of a line on a map or worship the wrong god. And if you can’t see that vast moral difference, you truly are unfit for making moral decisions for anyone, let alone millions of women worldwide.