Old Meme: Beauracrats in healthcare are fine, so long as they're going after women's health care.
A nice summation from Jon Walker at FDL: 64 Democrats Voted To Put A Bureaucrat Between You, Your Insurance Provider, And Your Doctor On The Issue Of Abortion
“Abortion would be the only legal medical procedure which the bill would ban insurance companies from covering. Abortion will be the only legal medical procedure the bill will offically “ration.” By voting for the amendment 64 Democrats and all but one Republican voted to put a government bureaucrat between you, your insurance provider, and your doctor. If you choose to have an abortion, your doctor is willing to prefer the procedure, and your insurance provider is willing to pay for the procedure, this amendment will have a government bureaucrat prevent that from happening. For all the talk about small government, these representatives are more than happy to give the government more power as long as it is used to restrict a woman’s right to choose.”
The more we get entrenched in this, the more it becomes quite obvious that it's not really about the fetuses. Abortion is acceptable in cases where people in power don't like the way the fetus was conceived, be it via rape or incest. And some of them are o.k. with it if the woman's health is in danger. (There are, of course, those who rail against abortion regardless of the conception. On one hand, that makes them less hypocritical. But they're still antiquated pedantic misogynist assholes.)
But abortion isn't acceptable if women, in fair to good/excellent health, have consensual sex and conceive. Nope. They need to own up to their responsibility/take their medicine like good little girls.
You know...all of this shit is the precise reason that I haven't, as yet, been able to sit down and read The Handmaid's Tale. I've started it, I've stopped. Started and stopped again. I see too much of a very real desire reflected in those pages.
“Abortion would be the only legal medical procedure which the bill would ban insurance companies from covering. Abortion will be the only legal medical procedure the bill will offically “ration.” By voting for the amendment 64 Democrats and all but one Republican voted to put a government bureaucrat between you, your insurance provider, and your doctor. If you choose to have an abortion, your doctor is willing to prefer the procedure, and your insurance provider is willing to pay for the procedure, this amendment will have a government bureaucrat prevent that from happening. For all the talk about small government, these representatives are more than happy to give the government more power as long as it is used to restrict a woman’s right to choose.”
The more we get entrenched in this, the more it becomes quite obvious that it's not really about the fetuses. Abortion is acceptable in cases where people in power don't like the way the fetus was conceived, be it via rape or incest. And some of them are o.k. with it if the woman's health is in danger. (There are, of course, those who rail against abortion regardless of the conception. On one hand, that makes them less hypocritical. But they're still antiquated pedantic misogynist assholes.)
But abortion isn't acceptable if women, in fair to good/excellent health, have consensual sex and conceive. Nope. They need to own up to their responsibility/take their medicine like good little girls.
You know...all of this shit is the precise reason that I haven't, as yet, been able to sit down and read The Handmaid's Tale. I've started it, I've stopped. Started and stopped again. I see too much of a very real desire reflected in those pages.