bonnie Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/28/playing-for-keeps Playing for Keeps By Ken Blackwell on 10.28.09 @ 6:08AM When President Obama was asked about whether abortion was in his health care plan, he answered elliptically. He didn't say it was or wasn't. He said there was a "tradition in this town of not paying for abortion." But isn't he the One elected on a platform of hope and change? Isn't he the One who wants to re-found the American experiment? Liberals would never have supported him for President if he said -- as Sen. Al Gore once said -- that abortion should not be federally-funded. Gore was running for President in 1988. He faced a buzzsaw of criticism from New York's powerful liberal fundraiser, Harold Ickes, Jr. His opposition to federal funding of abortion effectively ended Gore's quest for the White House twenty-one years ago. Obama would make no such mistakes in his triumphal march to the Presidency. Now, as we enter the crucial weeks of the nation's long and drawn-out health care debate, we get confirmation that abortion is in the health care takeover plan. No less a source than the reliably left-wing National Public Radio (NPR) confirmed federal funding of abortion for us. Julie Rovner explained that the reason the abortion issue has loomed so large in this year's health care debate is that "this time they're playing for keeps." All other abortion funding restrictions are annual amendments, Rovner pointed out on "Weekend Edition," but the Obamacare plan will become "permanent law." Both sides of the abortion debate, she reported, know that "there's a lot at stake here." NPR quoted liberal Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). Schakowsky said: "Comprehensive health care does include reproductive health care, prenatal and maternity care, screening for breast, cervical and other cancers or [sexually transmitted infections] abortion, contraceptive services. That these are basic health care for women [emphasis added] that we have a right to by virtue of our reproductive organs and our right to control our own bodies." Thank you, Rep. Schakowsky. You have dispelled most admirably the fog of confusion emanating from the White House fog machine. For liberals, life or death for unborn children is simply a matter of choice. Rights come not from God, but from our reproductive organs. Notice, it's rights squared -- we all have a right to health care and we have a right to say what health care is. Our right to control our bodies implies a right to make taxpayers pay for whatever we decide to do with our bodies. When the Department of Veterans Affairs last summer dredged up a rejected pamphlet for wounded warriors titled "Your Life, Your Choices," liberals cried foul as conservatives charged the pamphlet was opening the door to suicide for depressed and suffering vets. But given Rep. Schakowsky's definition of rights -- including the right to "control our bodies" -- why was the conservatives' charge wrong? How could the government deny you the right to control your body by ending your life if it is your life and your choice? I'd like to thank the pro-life Democrats for bravely fighting against this inclusion of federally-funded abortions in the national health care plan. Many of them favor some form of federal health care takeover -- with which I strongly disagree. But these pro-life Democrats are sacrificing greatly to stand on principle. Right now, they are the best hope we have for stopping this historic power grab. Yes, Julie Rovner is right: A lot is at stake here. If Obamacare goes through, if it has a hidden abortion funding mandate in it (if, for example, it requires health insurance plans to cover abortions), we will even more deeply divide our wounded country over abortion. "What they seek is that we shall cease calling it wrong." That's what Lincoln said at Cooper Union in 1860. He knew that the extreme advocates of slavery could not accept any settlement of the slavery debate that cast human bondage as morally unacceptable. For more than thirty years, the ban on federal funding of abortion first carried by the late Henry Hyde has carried with it a presumption that we call abortion wrong. That is why liberals rallied to Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton once, and only once, called it wrong. (Newsweek, October 31, 1994.) But she never acted as if it was wrong. Obama never even called abortion wrong. If he wins on his health care plan, all Americans will be forced to pay for abortion. All Americans will have to treat what Ronald Reagan called "the slaughter of innocents" as if it is right. No wonder President Reagan said that abortion was "a wound in our national soul." If Obamacare passes, the wound will be mortal. Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
bonnie Posted October 31, 2009 Author Posted October 31, 2009 HEY BONNIE THE more and more that one learns about health care the more you see that it is not good dgrimm60 I am sure that is why the rush is on and the refusal to let the american people have even three days to read their rot Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
Members phkrause Posted October 31, 2009 Members Posted October 31, 2009 I think we've had more than 3 days to read all that rot. pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
bonnie Posted October 31, 2009 Author Posted October 31, 2009 I think we've had more than 3 days to read all that rot. pk That may be true but the majority have not read that rot,including those that will vote to pass "the rot" Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
Dr. Shane Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 A big problem for the Obama Administration is that it has taken so long to get any health care bill passed. Now it isn't just FOXNews, but other networks that are looking at things closer and not so enamored with Obama. Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
Members phkrause Posted October 31, 2009 Members Posted October 31, 2009 The people reading that rot are not the ones who will be reading that rot. The Republicans and the Democrats in congress should be reading what they will be voting for. But they wont because neither side cares enough for us the people in the USA. The republicans wont read it because its a democratic bill, and the democrats wont read it because its there bill and whatever is in it is fine with them. pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
bonnie Posted October 31, 2009 Author Posted October 31, 2009 The people reading that rot are not the ones who will be reading that rot. The Republicans and the Democrats in congress should be reading what they will be voting for. But they wont because neither side cares enough for us the people in the USA. The republicans wont read it because its a democratic bill, and the democrats wont read it because its there bill and whatever is in it is fine with them. pk In the very recent past the republicans have not been granted the time to read what they are to vote on. It has made a difference that the U.S citizens have read this monstrosity . More and more are opposed to what they read and are making themselves heard Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
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