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Daily Archive for July 13th, 2009

Top 10 Reasons it’s the Un-choice … 60% said “part of me died.”1 The rhetoric of choice hides the reality of coercion. 64% of American women who have had abortions felt pressured by others.1 Her “choices” may involve losing her shelter, her family, her income or even her life. Coercion can escalate to violence. 2 [...]

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Jill Stanek does a good job, in my opinion, of uncovering the primary issue in the rush to provide (semi-) national health care: abortion. Jill quotes from Time magazine, July 8: Should government-subsidized health coverage pay for abortion procedures? For more than three decades, that question had seemed pretty much settled. The Hyde Amendment, passed [...]

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The New York Times has an interesting July 11 piece about the opinions of physicians, elected to Congress, relating to what has been called a “government takeover” of health care. “We seem to agree on everything,” Dr. [John] Fleming [R, Louisiana] said about his fellow physicians. “We agree on the fact that we need portability; [...]

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