Abortion proponent Amanda Marcotte blogged last week:
It's the most common outpatient procedure in the country, and yet we write it off as fringe. There's only 694,000 open heart surgeries a year on average, 600,000 hysterectomies and 193,000 hip replacements a year - but there's 1.2 million abortions performed every year.
Marcotte was complaining about something not the topic of my column today but interesting nonetheless, that for only the second time since the controversial animated sitcom Family Guy began airing in 1999, Fox was refusing to air an episode - on abortion.
Marcotte didn't think it funny that Fox didn't think abortion was funny.
But as I said, I digress.
It is true that abortion is one of the most if not the most common surgical procedure performed in America.
So, objectively speaking, abortion should be covered under Obama's nationalized health care plan.
As pro-abortion Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-CA, said 2 weeks ago when opposing an amendment to the health care plan banning taxpayer coverage of abortion, "It's a legal medical practice.... We're not talking about having your tonsils out and whether you can or can't.... Let them have an abortion or not have an abortion based on their needs, not ours."
Exactly. If abortion is the moral equivalent to having a tonsillectomy, and twice as prevalent (tonsillectomies are performed 600,000 times annually), then of course abortion should be covered in nationalized health care.
And if not, why not? If I were in the abortion industry, I'd be making darn sure it was.
But there has emerged a strange and opposite phenomenon. Pro-abortion leaders are going out of their way to reassure the public abortion won't be a mandated covered procedure in any health care plan.
This makes no sense. But, wrote Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards in Huffington Post August 3....
Continue reading my column today, "Cecile Richards: Crazy like a baby-killing fox," in WorldNetDaily.com.
