Abortion Clause

Saturday, 1:35 am

By KateC

Well, it has started. Congressional Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill:

House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill, complicating plans for Congress to wrap up its business and adjourn for the year.

The provision may be an early indication of the growing political muscle of social conservatives who provided crucial support for Republican candidates, including President Bush, in the election.

House officials said Saturday morning that the final details of the spending measure were worked out before midnight and that the bill was filed for the House vote on Saturday.

The abortion language would bar federal, state and local agencies from withholding taxpayer money from health care providers that refuse to provide or pay for abortions or refuse to offer abortion counseling or referrals. Current federal law, aimed at protecting Roman Catholic doctors, provides such “conscience protection’’ to doctors who do not want to undergo abortion training. The new language would expand that protection to all health care providers, including hospitals, doctors, clinics and insurers.

What these idiots fail to consider is that abortion isn’t going to go away whether legal or illegal. The only difference will be the safety to the woman. There is the choice between safe and medically sound abortion or botched coathanger abortions or filthy back alley abortions with a quack. Same aborted fetus, but with the added bonus of a dead woman. That’s the way it was before abortion was legal—and I remember the horrific stories prior to legalizing abortion in 1973. That’s the way it will be again save for one difference. The wealthy will travel to where it’s legal. Those with fewer resources will be the ones who will be maimed or left bleeding to death. Stupid, stupid fools.