December 9, 2009

Taxpayer Funding of Abortion is ‘Morally Correct,’ Say Democrats

The Senate voted Tuesday to reject an amendment barring federal funding of abortion in the health care takeover bill. The amendment, proposed by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), was defeated 54-45. Seven Democrats voted for Nelson’s amendment: Nelson, Mark Pryor (D-AR), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Bob Casey (D-PA), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Ted Kaufman (D-DE).

The Party of Abortion, however, largely remained just that. For example, CNSNews.com asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), “Is it morally right to use tax dollars from pro-life Americans to cover insurance plans that cover abortion?” Feinstein responded, “Is it morally correct? Yes, I believe it is. Abortion is legal, and there are certain very tragic circumstances that a woman finds herself in. Married, with an unborn baby that’s unable to survive outside of the womb, her doctor tells her it’s a threat to her health. I think she ought to have a policy available to her.”

CNSNews followed up, asking, “So it’s morally right for pro-life taxpayers to have to help pay for plans that cover abortion?”

“Please,” Feinstein scoffed. “We pay for a lot of things that we may or may not agree with, and taxpayers pay for it, for those things, as well.”

In other words, shut up and hand over your cash.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, meanwhile, addressed the Senate from the floor and made a strange comparison: “The men who have brought us this [amendment] don’t single out a procedure that’s used by a man, or a drug that is used by a man, that involves his reproductive health care, and say they have to get a special rider. There is nothing in this amendment that says if a man someday wants to buy Viagra, for example, that his pharmaceutical coverage cannot cover it, that he has to buy a rider. I wouldn’t support that. And they shouldn’t support going after a woman, using her own private funds for her reproductive health care. Is it fair to say to a man: ‘You’re going to have to buy a rider to buy Viagra and this will be public information – it could be accessed?’ No, I don’t support that. I support a man’s privacy just as I support a woman’s privacy. So it’s very clear to me that this amendment would be the biggest rollback to a woman’s right to choose in decades.”

To compare abortion with an erectile dysfunction medication is obscene and disgusting. But it’s indicative of the moral equivalency Democrats are so adept at repeating.

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