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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

The Politics of Loosening Healthcare's Abortion Restrictions

November 10, 2009 01:14 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

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Love and Care for Human Life

Thank You to all the Democrats that Protected Human Life. Thank You to all the Republicans that Protected Human Life. Thank You for standing strong for a culture of Love and Care above a culture of death.

Love and Care for Human Life is more important than party lines is the message that these Great Democrat and Republican Leaders have sent.

We the people as a nation who care about others no longer want abortion. Americans know the Truth that Abortion is holocaustic slaughter of human Life.

Abortion is the greatest detroyer of Life in America. It destroys human life at a rate of more than 3200 babies a day in America.

Americans want Life over death. Americans want Love and Care over death.

Americans want Health Care that Protects Life.

Key words: "I don't think"

Whether neutral or not, defining abortion as wrong in your own world view is far different from legislating your morality on an evenly divided but strongly opinionated society. That's why we have a constitution and a representative process. Lest we forget our history, alcohol consumption and opposition to slavery were once seen as immoral. The attempt to legislate those moral positions ended in disastrous failure.

wha?

if you think forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions is the easier way to go, i think you are going towards a path of assured defeat.

the country is about 50-50 when it comes to whether it should be 'legal' to have an abortion at all. if you then ask the question about whether it is okay to take money from someone who is morally opposed to abortion and use it for someone else's abortion, the number supporting it will be far less than 50 percent.

sorry folks, this is the trouble that comes along with wanting the government to pay for personal choices. the government has no funds of its own, and can only take from citizens to give to others. now you have to consider the will of the citizens whose money it was to begin with...

Ever notice how pro-lifers also tend to vote in favour of wars? Hmm.

You have a choice, America. You can either pay for abortions with Federal and state money, and remove restrictions in accessing same, or you can put the money into adequate nutrition, shelter, maintenance, education, and health care - including universal breastfeeding support - for pregnant women, mothers, and children.

If life is so precious to you, celebrate it. If children are a precious gift, treat them like that, even if they're not yours, and even if you think the mother should have kept her harlot sinhole in her pinafore. Men aren't going to stop impregnating women, and women aren't going to stop being afraid of the savage judgment of everyone who criticizes her for doing anything but prostitute herself for a wedding ring the way nice girls are supposed to.

If you are pro-life and you don't support socialist childcare, you are the worst and most virulent hypocrite.

OBAMA'S "...definition of abortion neutrality."

I don't think killing an unborn child has "neutral" ground. A woman and her partner made a baby - now handle it through 9 months of inconvenience - might even make you more responsible people. Wow, what a concept!

Further, as I recall Obama doesn't know when life begins. He might refer to one of his daughter's biology textbooks - but I suppose he finds that too burdensome a chore. In any case, a person who can't figure out that it's a human in the womb and not a turnip is unlikely to be able to define "abortion neutrality" - at least not in a coherent or meaningful way.

Separate Maternity Benefits Insurance Premiums are Common

May I suggest that pro-choice advocates are way out of line in objecting to having women

pay a separate "abortion premium" in order to insure that no federal dollars are used to fund abortions. They strenuously object to this idea, saying that "abortion is not a

planned event". May I remind them that most insurance companies make women pay a separate

"maternity benefits" premium, yet I have never heard anyone object to that. This would

be the exact same type of thing.

Obama's Ignorance is astonishing

Ignorance by any definition is ignorance. And this educated idiot is killing me. When I voted for this guy I honestly truly believed he was going to change things, instead he has taken a seat and has become part of the problem instead of the solution. Everyone is telling me about this Obama health plan. Would someone please explain to me, JUST WHAT IS OBAMA'S HEALTH PLAN? In spite of all his yapping (all talk)I am still waiting to see him do something.I am tired of seeing and hearing this DO NOTHING GUY on television. Just what is his problem? And please, don't give me the same tired clitches.

He seems to be more concerned about Iran than anything else. For this fools information if I had a history with my neighbor as America does with Iran I would be doing the same thing Iran is doing...trying to protect itself. Iran is the least of America's problems. The biggest problem America faces is Washington, DC. If we (people) can clean out Washington DC, America can have some fun again. So there you have it...America's problem is YOU ALL. The White House and Congress. But I am sure that is too simple for the political LIFERS (people who make lieing seem honorable) in Washington to understand.

So Mr. Obama, please take a little piece of advice, tell me, what is your health plan? Then go to congress and tell them exactly what it is you want. Right now I am sure those fools in congress are as confused as I am. And I can really blame them because you never spelled out what you wanted. Get off TV, and do something. You are not that cute or handsome. Frankly, You have become very boring.

bloated government vs Wal-Mart

Government needs to stay out of healthcare. Government only

Complicates issues: very slow to act, inefficient, bureaucratc, etc. We can Solve healthcare problems by eliminating monopolies, allow us to buy health insurance across state lines,

there needs to be More Competition, "true" competition. And

torte reform. But, the democrats have the trial lawyers in their pocket, so that's why democrats are ignoring torte reform.

Maybe we need to ask Wal-Mart or some other supply chain manager

to reduce our healthcare costs. I have more confidence Wal-Mart can do it than our bloated government and politicians.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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