The Gap into Conflict
You may be wondering why Republicans seem so adamantly against Obama’s healthcare bill when it seems, superficially at any rate, to offer millions more people a chance of decent health care. The Democrats love to portray the Republicans as selfish people obstructing the provision of healthcare to millions of their fellow Americans.
This may explain their marked lack of enthusiasm.
Obama's healthcare bill apparently ditches the Hyde Amendment, enabling abortion to become a state-sponsored "essential" service.
”The use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions has been supposedly banned until now. “Planned Parenthood” (in reality planned non-parenthood) have been looking for a way to circumvent the Hyde Amendment which bans the use of taxpayer funds for this purpose. Obama’s healthcare bill apparently ditches the Hyde Amendment, enabling abortion to become a state-sponsored “essential” service.
In New Zealand, of course, we are mystified at the fuss. After all, our tax dollars are industriously used to kill foetuses virtually every day of the week.
Americans are understandably less keen on this use of their tax dollars.
The debate on the use of tax payer funds for abortion was long over in New Zealand by the time I arrived in this country. I may not like my tax used this way, but I simply have to lump it (after all, it is not as if tax is voluntary). But Americans still have this battle to fight and they should make sure that this does not slip under the radar of the collective American conscience. People who vehemently disagree with abortion should not be made to pay for it with their taxes. Long ago, Americans fought for “no taxation without representation”. If the majority of Americans disagree with funding abortions (and this is by no means certain) then Obamacare will mean exactly that – taxation without representation.
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Mar 6 10 9:19 pm
Doc, perhaps you can correct me if I am wrong. As I understand it if a couple have more children than than they want they have to pay for one of them to get sterilised. However if they us contraception and it fails they get a taxpayer funded abortion. I am hope I am wrong.
Mar 6 10 9:38 pm
Chuck:
Both abortion and sterilisation are currently taxpayer funded. The waiting list for the latter is quite long and many men have vasectomies in private because it is relatively cheap. Failed contraception is not an indication for abortion, legally. But, as you probably appreciate, the vast bulk of women who have “failed contraception” get their abortions via the mental health provisions.
It is truly amazing how many women who are forgetful about their contraception are also crazy…
Mar 7 10 9:04 am
Surely, it would make sense to offer quick taxpayer funded sterilisation to women who either have abused children.
I am certainly not in favour of compelling people to have abortions or pay poor or desperate people to have them but to offer them to people who want them would surely cut done on child abuse and abortion.
Vasectomies work for married couples but are not that effective with women who have multiple partners.