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by Dennis Coday on Mar. 19, 2010
"Among the most nettlesome obstacles in the yearlong debate over increasing the accessibility and affordability of health insurance has been the question of what effect health care reform legislation would have on the incidence of abortion."
Thus begins Dr. Patrick Whelan's discussion of a study of the Massachusetts health insurance program, Commonwealth Care, upon which the Senate's health care reform bill draws. The study was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine
Whelan's conclusion: "The recent experience in Massachusetts suggests that universal health care coverage has been associated with a decrease in the number of abortions performed."
Whelan is on the pediatrics faculty at Harvard Medical School and is a pediatric rheumatology specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston. He is also a member of the NCR board of directors.
Whelan's conclusion: "The
Whelan's conclusion: "The recent experience in Massachusetts suggests that universal health care coverage has been associated with a decrease in the number of abortions performed."
Sorry, Mother Mary San Quentin, RSM.
To support the health care bill is to support a DECREASE in abortions.
Why do we assume so arrogantly that to extend health care to the poor will cause an increase in abortions?
The rich get abortions because it just so disturbs their solipsistic lifestyle to have a baby.
For the rich its all about them, not about baby care. . .
Ask the younger Bush back at Yale.
The poor do not have abortions; we have babies.
Praying to have the next Malcolm X, the next Pancho Villa, the next Mícheál Mac Dáibhéid, the next Nelson Mandela, the next Rosa Parks.
Providing health care decreases abortions, dudes, as desperation dies out.
frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco)
"Catholic politicians and
"Catholic politicians and activists alike on both sides of the aisle are arguing about abprtopmcoverage in health care reform as if the state of their souls depended on it. For all I know, they may be right. So, assume you are Joe Congressman and you have just died. Here are some questions you can expect if you have blocked or enacted health care reform.
Jesus will first ask you how many abortions were prevented by blocking taxpayer funding of abortion. You will answer, since in the next life, all is known and laid bare. (by the way, the wording of the question was intentional – how many were funded is not relevant, how many more actually occurred is).
He will then ask you how many abortions occurred or were prevented because you passed or didn’t pass health care reform. Again, you will know.
He will then ask you how many other people died or were saved because you passed or didn’t pass health care reform. You will know that too.
What happens to you next depends upon which number is greater. My advice is that it is best that you know these numbers now, because Jesus cares about what actually happens to people, not whether you helped the Church or the party saved face."
Posted By Michael Bindner | 2010-03-03 18:32:33.0
http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=17018521-3048...
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