Pro-Lifer's "Cry Wolf"
Commonweal has an article claiming “elective” abortions in the Healthcare bill are simply bogus. The lack of that nobody else has mentioning the Hyde Amendment till this article is odd. It would seem there some loop hole in the wording that not even Obama can’t ignore that states that the Amendment isn’t applied. There are two thing that bothers me about this statement.
The first thing is that bring up FOCA is odd because Obama said he would sign it if it came to his desk. FOCA getting to his desk just seemed absurdly unlikely. Retconing all of the laws pertaining to abortions is near the frustrating confusion that un-marrying Peter Parker & Mary Jane. FOCA seemed to be a lot of anti-Obama rhetoric that states how radically prochoice he is.
Secondly, I just feel it’s odd that Obama needed to address Prolife groups to tell them how the bill would not be used for abortions. That seems to really discredit the Hyde Amendment argument. He made a lot of promises to a lot of groups. I don’t see a reason why couldn’t this bill be used fulfill some of them.
Update 03/21/10 11:21PM
I was just informed that the National Catholic Reporter has stated it supports the health care bill. The article makes a number of points, many of which I didn’t know, about the pro choice laws in place in this country. If this bill was not to be used for the funding of abortions, why haven’t they write “the necessary language that could have taken this moral question off the table.”1