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Health care bill attacks marriage

December 29th, 2009 Jennifer Roback Morse No comments

We first reported this travesty here. Now CitizenLink has picked up on it, hopefully spreading the word to millions more people.  The welfare rules of the Great Society drove marriage out of the homes of the poor. The health care bill has the potential to drive marriage out of the middle class.

A closer look at premium payments in both the House and Senate health care bills shows higher premiums that might discourage couples from tying the knot. Read more…

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‘Marriage penalty’ buried in healthcare bills

December 14th, 2009 Betsy No comments

Scary! Thanks for pointing this craziness out, Mr. Quist.

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow

A Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota says “a huge marriage penalty for the American middle class” is hidden in both the House and Senate healthcare bills.

Former Minnesota state legislator Allen Quist points out that two single people each making $30,000 per year would pay $1,320 combined for private health insurance if the Pelosi House bill was in effect now. However, if the two individuals were to marry, they would pay a combined cost of $12,000 a year for the same level of insurance under the Pelosi bill. Read more…

A pledge to fight ‘mega-genocide’

November 20th, 2009 Betsy No comments

Carolyn Moynihan, Mercatornet.com

While defenders of unborn life waged a successful battle in the United States House last weekend, winning a provision to exclude abortion coverage from health reform legislation, an international gathering in Spain was defining abortion as “mega-genocide” and pledging to fight harder to protect human life. Read more…

Have death panels already arrived?

November 20th, 2009 Betsy No comments
Nancy Valko, Mercatornet.com
The case against: an experienced nurse worries that Obamacare will entrench an existing quality-of-life ethic. 
Medical ethics are concerned with care for a patient’s welfare, something huge institutions are not very good at. The controversy about “death panels” in proposed health care reform legislation is to be expected. As a nurse, despite all the soothing noises from the Obama administration, I do believe there is cause for serious concern. Read more…

No easy way out for Dems on Abortion

November 12th, 2009 Jennifer Roback Morse No comments

Thus sayeth Ray Flynn former Boston mayor and US Ambassador to the Vatican at Politico, quoted on Yahoo.

“They’re looking for an easy way out. And there is no easy way out when it comes to right or wrong or true or false,” said former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, an abortion opponent who served as ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration. “On some of these issues, there’s just no compromise.”

The Democrats having been trying to have it both ways: run “moderate” candidates, from their traditional constituencies, who are pro-life. Flash their Life credentials during the elections, and once safely elected, hog-tie and muzzled them, and keep them on the Abortion Plantation. ‘Cept it didn’t work this time on Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, who

reshaped the legislative landscape when he offered an amendment restricting the sale of insurance policies covering abortion through the proposed national health insurance exchange — or to women who receive health care subsidies from the federal government.

Stupak’s proposal, which would also bar any public health insurance plan from covering abortion procedures, passed the House on Saturday over objections from a majority of Democratic lawmakers, who voted against the amendment.

Supporters of abortion rights were outraged — especially House Democratic women, many of whom view Stupak’s legislation as a betrayal of a key Democratic commitment.

Boo-hoo. Face it. The American public does not want to use taxpayer money for abortion. They haven’t wanted that for years. they still don’t want it. And now, the Democratic attempt to nationalize one sixth of the economy has people scared. Every village idiot can see that the greater the governmental control of the funding, the greater the governmental control of the actual decisions of actual patients, physicians and pharmacists.

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Will Blue Dogs stand fast against abortion coverage?

November 6th, 2009 Betsy No comments

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow

Just two days before a possible vote on their healthcare bill, Democratic leaders in the House have still refused to include a provision in the legislation that would prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion under a new public health insurance program. Read more…

Anyone in the House listening?

November 6th, 2009 Betsy No comments

Sheila Liaugminas, Mercatornet.com

  Every chance he gets, Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak is making a reasoned argument for his amendment to ensure health care legislation won’t require citizens to pay for abortion.

House Democratic leaders introduced their health care plan last week with language, known as the Capps amendment, that would mandate public funding for abortion. Read more…