Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards Convinces Jake That He's Pro-Choice
Cecile Richards article at the Huffington Post shocked me. I agree with her so much.
She's talking about the abortion-related compromise made with Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska:
Under this new language, anyone -- men and women of all ages -- who participates in an insurance plan that includes abortion coverage is required to write two separate premium checks each month: one for abortion care and one for everything else. I'm just trying to picture my son writing out his health insurance payment, and then writing another check for his part of the "abortion coverage."Damned right! Why on earth is your son being forced to pay for coverage he doesn't need?
This new "extra" payment for abortion coverage is akin to an abortion rider -- as if women would take these extra steps to pay for insurance, with a separate check, that included abortion coverage. Women don't plan an unplanned or problem pregnancy any more than they plan for a heart attack. But they expect that they have coverage nonetheless.Also right! This is coverage that many women wouldn't take, including my mother, my mother-in-law, my wife, my sisters-in-law, and, I hope and pray for the future, my daughters. Not just because the term "insurance" doesn't apply -- Do you buy "insurance" for something that's physically impossible? Do you buy insurance the only purpose of which is to destroy something that you want? -- but because they find it morally reprehensible. So yes, it's a rider, for women who want this kind of coverage.
But that's not all: Cecile and I also agree that people need insurance coverage for things that aren't planned. My health insurance covers unplanned heart attacks. My life insurance covers unplanned death. My homeowner's insurance covers unplanned fires and theft. People should buy insurance for things that they don't plan to have happen.
I guess Cecile and I differ a little bit. I mean, I can choose the amount of my life insurance, or even have none; I can choose the deductible on my homeowner's insurance. I don't understand why Cecile says that I can't choose to not have abortion coverage. That even her son can't choose not to have abortion coverage.
I'm not even sure I can explain it to my husband. He's pro-choice, but I'm not sure he's going to get why he's supposed to write a check each month to pay for abortion coverage.Cecile, according to Wikipedia, you graduated from Brown in 1980. That puts you something north of fifty years old. Why should he write a check each month to pay for abortion coverage?
Yeah, I'd have to say that I'm pro-choice with respect to abortion insurance.
Labels: abortion, health care bill, healthcare reform
posted by Jake Freivald @ 9:54 PM
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3 Comments:
Well Stated. Like the humor. Get a copy of the film- Maafa21 and see WHY Planned Parenthood wants us to fund abortions. It is all about EUGENICS - Watch Maafa21 ( 2 Hours and Fully Documented) and see why: clip here - http://www.maafa21.com
Eugenics? That sounds like a pretty conspiracy pumped movie.
Its almost like you have already hit Godwin's law after 1 post :)
It's not Godwin's Law: It's a matter of reading what Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said. She didn't believe in killing the degenerates, but she absolutely believed in eugenics.
"[T]he greatest crime of modern civilization [is] that of permitting motherhood to be left to blind chance, and to be mainly a function of the most abysmally ignorant and irresponsible classes of the community." From The Pivot of Civilization, found on Project Gutenberg here.
"The curious situation has come about that while our statesmen are busy upon their propaganda of "repopulation," and are encouraging the production of large families, they are ignoring the exigent problem of the elimination of the feeble-minded. In this, however, the politicians are at one with the traditions of a civilization which, with its charities and philanthropies, has propped up the defective and degenerate and relieved them of the burdens borne by the healthy sections of the community, thus enabling them more easily and more numerously to propagate their kind." Ibid.
"Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." Ibid.
You might find her book Woman and the New Race interesting, too. While it's not as explicitly racialist as you might think from the title, it is 100% about eugenics.
Also see her entry in Wikipedia, if you like.
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