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The Real Agenda of
Pro-Abortionists
Part One of Three
By Dave Andrusko
Part Two breaks down the numbers from a
very encouraging Pew poll.
Part Three discusses the defeat of the
Kyl Amendment in Committee. Please send any
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Let me offer three quotes
which set the framework for both Part One
and Part Two of TN&V for Thursday.
"Events this week in Congress
provide fresh proof that top Democratic
leaders in Congress are pushing forward with
plans to establish massive new programs that
would pay for elective abortions and
subsidize insurance coverage of abortions --
which, if achieved, would break from decades
of federal policy."
-- From National Right to Life yesterday. On Wednesday
the Senate Finance Committee continued a
series of meetings to amend the "America's
Healthy Future Act," a health care
restructuring bill proposed by Chairman Max
Baucus (D-Mt.) which is loaded with major
abortion-related problems.
"In a rational system of
medical care, there would be virtually no
restrictions on financing abortions.
....There should be no restrictions on
abortion coverage in the exchanges. Health
care reformers should not retreat on this
issue, but we recognize that principle is
often sacrificed in Congressional
bargaining. Democrats who support the
compromise must find a way to prevent it
from being used later to go after other tax
subsidies and thus further deny Americans'
rights to make their own health-care
decisions."
-- Editorial in today's New York Times, hewing to the
phony line that the Baucus bill is a
"compromise" on abortion at the same time it
criticizes the committee Democrats for their
phantom "bargaining."
"For most of the last two
decades, a clear majority of Americans has
supported the right to abortion. A new poll,
though, shows that support for abortion has
declined, with the public almost evenly
divided over the issue."
-- From an article in this morning's New York Times,
regarding a new poll from the Pew Research
Center.
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Pro-abortion President Barack
Obama, pro-abortion Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid, and
pro-abortion Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi.
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Columnist Charles
Krauthammer, among President Obama's most
astute critics, charitably observed a couple
of weeks ago that "Obama doesn't lie. He
merely elides, gliding from one dubious
assertion to another." On the question of
abortion and the various health care
"reform" plans that have surfaced to date,
should we be cutting Senate Democrats the
same slack? That is a rhetorical question,
not because I refuse to believe that the
highly unlikely is impossible, but because
their actions on the ground prove they are
patently dishonest.
The Times is a sensitive barometer of the
pro-abortion mind set. Let's assume for the
sake of discussion that the Times editorial
page actually believes that Senate Democrats
are so eager to enact health care "reform"
that they have swallowed their ideological
commitment to more abortions, always and
everywhere, paid for by you.
As noted above, the
newspaper wants all abortions paid for under
virtually any and all circumstances.
Anything less, we're told, is
"discrimination." But that's just the tip of
the iceberg, both for the Times and their
pro-abortion friends in Congress. Under the
surface is a vast slab of proposals that is
intended to sink any attempt to rein in
would be an explosive growth in the number
of dead babies.
This, of course, pro-abortion Senate
Democrats would deny up and down. But when
you propose to pay for something with untold
amounts of federal dollars ("Bills currently
advancing in Congress would establish direct
federal funding of elective abortion, and
tax subsidies for private insurance that
covers elective abortions"); weave the
killing into the warf and woof of 1/6th of
the American economy; and refuse to "codify
a temporary law prohibiting any level of
government from discriminating against
health-care providers that do not wish to
participate in providing abortions," you
have not only commandeered the pocketbooks
of Americans you have also violated the
consciences of thousands of physicians. It
would give the Abortion Establishment a
gigantic boost beyond its wildest dreams.
Failing to tell the truth
about the inexorable increase in the number
of abortions is only part of a larger
pattern. Truth has been the first casualty
of the Democrats' various health care
"reform" proposals.
But the grim reaper realities have to be
finessed, to put it gently. The public has
long made it clear that no matter what
individual Americans may feel about
abortion, they don't want the government
subsidizing the slaughter. This holds true
in the health care debate.
As we've noted often in TN&V,
earlier this month Public Opinion Strategies
conducted a national poll which found that
43% of registered voters said they would be
"less likely" to support the president's
health plan "if the government paid for
abortions," and only 8% said "more likely."
But it's not just that
health care "reform" offers a once in a
lifetime chance to turn abortion into a kind
of anti-life mortar for the entire health
care system. Pro-abortionists also know the
clock is ticking. Without question, support
for abortion is declining at a rapid pace.
This comes through
unmistakably in a new study reported today
by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
(http://www.pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=441).
The bottom line, highlighted by the New York
Times, was the drop in support for legal
abortion. But there is much, much more as we
will talk about in Part Two.
Please send your comments on
either Part One or Part Two to
daveandrusko@gmail.com.
Part Two
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