Senate rejects Nelson amendment on abortion
From the Washington Post
The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has the 60 votes needed to move the bill toward final passage.
The measure, which failed 54-45, addressed the scope of restrictions on coverage of abortion services for people who receive subsidies to buy insurance. The outcome could cost the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who has threatened to filibuster the $848 billion bill unless abortion restrictions are tightened.
Meanwhile California Senator Dianne Feinstein makes the statement that it is morally correct for taxpayers opposed to abortion to cough up money for it. Her reasoning: we pay for lots of things we don't believe in. Audio linked below. I've written on this before and I won't go into it too much here. I simply find it unbelievable that they could mandate public support for such a divided issue. It's one thing to go to war, with the national security of everyone at risk. It's another thing to take a social issue and mandate its support from people who find it reprehensible and morally wrong. Government force is in full swing, with "progressives" taking the perogative on what is moral. If any group is less capable of judging morailty, I don't know of them.
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hypothetically thinking, there is so much un-believable "junk" going on..... what if we had videos of the actual event of abortion, and played it for our jr & sr high schoolers as an educational purpose. Watching the infant, via ultra sound, fight for their life, as the needle gets injected. I can help but wonder, if the "dark-side" would finally become aware?
ReplyDeleteIronically, we offer more protection for wildlife than we do humans, and if healthcare passes, old people are gonna get the needle! Okay, maybe not the needle, but they will be deemed too old, and costly, therefore each old person that becomes too costly, should graciously accept death, as their duty to fulfill social justice for society!
I agree whole heartedly on the abortion front. A friend of mine refuses to even call it abortion, he simply refers to it as; " laser scrambling baby brains" (or something to that effect). The problem is, a video showing an abortion would be offensive. Which means inappropriate, which means not progressive, which means un-enlightened, which means there's not a chance they will do it. They are cowards in their own beliefs, and would never do it. Maybe I will put a video on the blog. That should get some attention!
ReplyDeleteAlso.....
It's a sad truth that people don't want to deal with. Maybe the saddest thing about all this push for healthcare, is the realization of how little people understand of economic concepts. Healthcare is a limited resource. Its price is determined by many factors, a major factor being supply and demand. We cannot simply give away care to 40 million people without having some cost associated with it, one being a reduction in available supply. When prices are no longer what we use to ration that resource, the government will begin to do so. So as you said, the elderly along with the terminally ill, will now be a bad use of an even more limited resource. You see it already in California. The public health officials claiming that mammograms for woman need to be pushed back to those 50 years or older. This outraged doctors and advocates for awareness. A few weeks after that, insurers no longer cover the process for 40 year old woman or woman under 50. Sorry ladies, its simply not cost effective. Now you can experience how the government rations
Of course the government continues to tell us that they are simply trying to create competition. What a joke! You don't compete with a competitor that has the ability to print infinite amounts of money and give their product away for free. They call it competition, I call it elimination. Once the government steps into this, they will destroy the entire private sector. IT is inevitable. Only extremely expensive private plans will exist, and they will be available only to those who are extremely wealthy. And of course out politicians.
Lastly, you couldnt be more right about the wildlife comment. It's pathetic and yet true. On the bright side though, PETA was just added to the domestic terrorists list. A minor victory in the battle against those nutbags