The right to choose abortion is not enough for longing-to-be-First-Lady Elizabeth Edwards. She and her presidential hopeful husband John want to offer a health care plan that would pay for abortions.
Edwards spoke for her husband when she joined other Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), in addressing the abortion-friendly Planned Parenthood Action Fund group, reported the Chicago Tribune.
John Edwards' proposal would be "a true universal health-care plan," one providing insurance coverage for "all reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination," his wife said.
The Edwards' bold assumption -- that we the people would not mind paying for abortions -- made no mention of the cost of this plan or that taxpayers' pockets would be picked to pay for it.
Please note that Edwards is not the only Democratic presidential hopeful who wants to spread the hopelessness of abortion around.
Obama said that his insurance plan would include "reproductive-health services." The Tribune later contacted Obama's office and a spokesperson said abortion was part of his package.
Clinton has not yet released her health-care wish list this time around, but she "provided a bruising critique of Bush adminsitration policies and Republican conservatives on abortion rights and contraception policy," wrote the Tribune's Mike Dorning.
Edwards' wife and Obama danced around the word "abortion" during their remarks to PPAF about their health care plans. Clinton danced around presenting her health care plan to her PPAF pals.
All are out of tune with voters who believe in the right to be born.
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan
http://www.mothermayibeborn.com
Now might also be a good time to point out that the pro-abortion CDC noted that public-pay patients have a higher complication rates than private-pay patients, even when you adjust for other factors such as race and income.
And, after the Hyde Amendment went into effect, banning Federal funds for elective abortions, the CDC constructed a study designed to demonstrate that this cutback in funding resulted in more hospitalizations for abortion complications among Medicaid-eligible women. It found, however, quite the opposite. In states where funding was cut off for elective abortions, hospitalizations for abortion complications fell among Medicaid-eligible women, but they remained stable in states that picked up the tab.
So, in practice if not in intent, these panderers are willing to throw poor women under the bus in order to gain the votes of population control enthusiasts who want to lower the birthrate among poor and minority women.