Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Are conservative Catholic opponents of healthcare reform playing right into the hands of NARAL and Planned Parenthood by marginalizing themselves in the abortion-in-healthcare debate?
Lefty Catholic writer Michael Sean Winters makes the case:
The irony, of course, is that all of these conservative opponents of health care reform share a determination with many liberal Catholics to prevent the reform legislation from becoming a vehicle to advance the availability of abortion or to provide public funding for the procedure. But, by demonstrating their determined opposition to any and all of the health care reform efforts pending before Congress, they undermine the pro-life part of their program. In fact, they play right into the hands of NARAL and NOW and those groups who do want to hijack health care reform to skirt around the Hyde Amendment's prohibition of federal funds subsidizing abortion services. The administration and the leaders in Congress have no reason to listen to pro-life advocates on abortion if they are going to be opposed to the final bill on other grounds anyway.
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