Life Links 3-2-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The Wall Street Journal on the tabling of the Blunt Amendment:
Nancy Pelosi called it “devastating legislation” and “the latest ploy in the Republican agenda of disrespecting the health of American women.” Planned Parenthood claimed the “dangerous proposal” would have allowed “your boss” — yes, yours — to decide “which prescriptions you can get filled and which medical procedures you can have,” including cancer screening, maternity care and AIDS medications.
It sounds medieval. But in fact, the provision that the Senate tabled yesterday would merely have restored the status quo ante of one month ago. Those were the dark ages before the Obama Administration overturned traditional conscience protections with its birth-control insurance mandate under the Affordable Care Act.
- Rick Perry responds to President Obama’s plan to cut federal funding to Texas’ Women’s Health Program because state law disallowed funding for Planned Parenthood:
… [T]he Obama Administration apparently is unwilling to allow the exclusion of organizations like Planned Parenthood, as Texas law requires, even though that organization represents less than 2 percent of enrolled providers. Texas has more than 2,500 qualified providers in 4,600 sites across the state, ready to deliver care.
If this debate were really about health care, the Obama Administration would allow the Texas Women’s Health Program to continue.
Instead, the administration’s stated intention to reject the Texas program reflects nothing more than its pro-abortion agenda, and is a blatant pander to the president’s liberal base, which has made Planned Parenthood’s abortion services a celebrated cause.
- At least one state legislator in California (Sen. Christine Kehoe) thinks first trimester abortions should no longer be performed strictly by licensed physicians, but also by nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives. Apparently, there just aren’t enough abortionists around to do the deed:
Lawmakers opposed to abortion, however, were furious.
“My immediate response when I heard about this bill was visceral — I felt like I was kicked in the gut,” Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee) said in a statement. “I shouldn’t be shocked at the moral failure this represents, but I fear what it says about our society that we are actually looking for more ways to abort babies.”
[Photo via Politico]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
“If this debate were really about health care, the Obama Administration would allow the Texas Women’s Health Program to continue.”
So, so true. It hasn’t actually been about health care for quite a while now.
I find the PP statement so ironic. One, the actual mandate did not stop you from buying your own pills (to the tune of $4 per month at many of the local pharmacies). What happened to your body, your choice? Pay for it with your own darn money!!
Two, this is going to be the actuality when obamacare starts to ration healthcare. There is just no way not to see rationing in our future. The only way it works in Canada is the Canadians come here for their healthcare.
I spent 4 bucks on a glass of wine last night.
Jane, as a Canadian who has used Canada’s healthcare system extensively (for my children) the average Canadian doesn’t come to the US for their healthcare. The wealthy Canadians do because those are the only people who can afford health care in the US. The women who come to the US for abortions do so because there are more late term abortion clinics there than here, despite Canada having no law on abortion.
The health care system in Canada has always worked for me. I’ve had a home birth. I’ve had children hospitalized. One of my daughters has received excellent treatment for a brain disorder. She was diagnosed while in Emerg. She was recently evaluated at a pediatric clinic by a series of specialists who saw us in good time and were wonderful. Guess what? It didn’t cost me my life savings nor my house.
What I find reprehensible is how Obama and Pelosi are framing the discussion as an issue of women’s healthcare. It’s all about this fictiious right to contracept and to abort. Somehow, Catholic’s exercising their right to follow their conscience prevents women from receiving health care. One can see where this slippery slope will soon go.
Does it sound like the WSJ is anti-Catholic? Aren’t terms like “medival” and “dark ages” code words for the Catholic Church?
Has this disagreement between Gov. Perry and Pres. Obama turned into a game of chicken between two fellow Christians?
How does the President reconcile his support of abortion with his Christianity?
A capitalistic society without the framework of Christian values to support it will fall (become socialistic).
“A capitalistic society without the framework of Christian values to support it will fall (become socialistic).”
Indeed, Tyler, any system of government will always ultimately bow to its bottom line.
When based on Christianity, it bows to God, in all His wisdom, truth, and love, and thus the society prospers.
Unfortunately, as we are seeing today and have seen throughout history, those societies which instead bow to the dollar or worse, to the self, are always doomed to fail, and they generally take many people down with them.
2000 years of repetitious history and the lesson still hasn’t been learned, so the cycle goes on, in all its inhumane coldness and cruelty.