"We cannot and will not support a health care bill that strips millions of women of their existing access to abortion," NOW President Terry O'Neill said in a statement. "NOW calls on the Senate to pass a health care bill that respects women's constitutionally protected right to abortion and calls on President Obama to refuse to sign any health care bill that restricts women's access to affordable, quality reproductive health care."For years, they've supported a government policy of the sun rising in the east. Now they're dismayed that the sun rises in the east. Whatever.
So what happens when you inject another politicized topic - with its satellite political activist groups - into the mix? Something like this:
American researchers have estimated that the US health care sector is responsible for "nearly a tenth" of the nation's carbon emissions. This is almost triple the amount emitted by aviation and around four times that emitted by the IT industry, suggesting that green groups should shift the focus of their advocacy.Journal of the AMA, Vol. 302, No. 18, Nov 11 2009.
What healthcare will get cut by the ruling class - and for whom - to appease the environmental lobby?
It's been awhile since I read the Constitution, but I don't recall abortion in it.
ReplyDeleteHow can denying life to one be a right of another?
Anonymous, it's not there, and I agree with your position on abortion.
ReplyDeleteBut that wasn't my point, which was the Liberal Agenda is determined to politicize all sorts of things that used to be considered private. Once that happens (for example, health care), why should they be surprised to see politics causing them grief?
The knife cuts both ways, but this seems to be catching them by surprise.