Nancy Pelosi Tries to Sidestep Questions on Abortion in Health Care Reform

John King does a great job trying to nail down an answer from Nancy Pelosi on this issue.

The Washington Post Thinks the President is Misleading the Public on Health Care?

My first response was to gasp, then to shake my head in wonder--today's Washington Post criticizes (yep, I'm still shocked) the president for misleading the public on the true cost of healthcare reform.

Red State Offers This Look at Health Care Rationing in Oregon

Over at Red State, they take a look at what happens in Oregon when patients choose the "public option" for their health care.

The Senate Doctors Show

Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. and John Barasso, M.D. make up The Senate Doctors Show. They answer questions about health care reform. Check out the program of the only doctors in the Senate.

CBO Director's Blog Post on the Effect of the Health Care Bill on the Deficit

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf wrote in his blog Saturday about the effect of H.R 3200 on the deficit

Mikulski Inserts Abortion Coverage in Senate Health-Care Bill

This happened last week but I find it interesting. Here is the video, courtesy of CNS News:



FYI, note that Senator Casey (D-Penn.) says in the video that he would oppose the bill because of this amendment.

Mary Katherine Ham Points Out that Obama Doesn't Know What's in His Health Care Legislation

This was funny in a sad, bizarre, ironic way.

Harry Reid Says No Senate Vote on Health Care Until the Fall

The Washington Times is reporting that Senator Reid is saying "no" to a health care vote in the Senate until after the August break. This doesn't mean that things are going to let up. The Senate fight won't be pretty and we would do better to kill it in the House.

This is going to be dicey folks.

Contact Your Representative

It is imperative that you contact your representative and tell him or her to say no to abortion in any Obama Care plan. Please call 202-224-3121 and tell the operator the name of your representative in Congress. If you don't know, just tell the operator your zip code. Please call.

Universal Health Care-- Redux

It may not be called the "Clinton" Health Care Plan but it's guaranteed to be just as expensive, just as cumbersome and just as pro-abortion.



So, we're headed for even more economic woes and we're going to throw federal monies and bureaucracy into the health care system?!

As for pro-abortion: don't believe me? Look at his speech before Planned Parenthood Action Fund in July 2007 (go ahead, I'll wait, the transcript is on the right, yup, just there...) At the end of the transcript, Barack Obama is asked some questions by three audience members. The first question is how "reproductive rights" and Planned Parenthood fit into a universal health care plan. Barack Obama's answer:

Well, look, in my mind reproductive care is essential care--basic care--so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that I propose. . . .

But, essentially, what we are doing is to say that we’re going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don’t have health insurance. It’ll be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services, as well as mental health services and disease management services. [scattered applause]

. . .

Now, I know I’m limited on time but I just want to expand on that second part of your question which is the role that organizations like Planned Parenthood play. . . .my hope is that we still have non-profit participation under my plan.

But, in the meantime, what I’ve said is that I believe we can have universal health care in this country by the end of the next president’s first term. By the end of my first term as president [applause] of the United States of America.

[Italics mine]

In pro-abortion parlance "reproductive healthcare" doesn't just mean pre-natal care (by the way, check out the "pre-natal care" section of a recent Planned Parenthood Annual Report and you'll notice that they don't do a lot of that.) The foundation of "reproductive healthcare" is abortion on demand. To sum up:

Obama Health Care Plan = abortion-on-demand with your tax dollars