Man Bites Blog

At least, that seems to be the logic of Meredith Simons at the XX blog:

Remember those conservatives who don’t want the government interfering in health care plans?
Right, well, it turns out what they meant was they don’t want the government interfering in health care plans, except when it comes to abortion. At that point, the government can interfere to its heart’s content.

Now, this doesn’t describe me, since I wasn’t dead-set against health-care refrom. But it seems like the following represent a perfectly coherent position:

• The government should not be involved in health care.
• If the government is involved in health care, it should be in line with the values of the public, including not paying for abortions.

According to Simons’ logic, anyone who opposed the invasion of Iraq had not business protesting Abu Ghraib. After all, if they had their way, the troops wouldn’t even be over there, how dare they say how they conduct themselves.

Apparently when Simons envisioned government taking over health care, it wasn’t government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it was the government of her and the people she knows and like, who would have no problem with the government paying for abortions. But that is not the people of America — as the title of her post suggests, she has to choose (in an ironic reprise of the abortion lobby’s key buzzword) between health care and abortion. Those who have any difficulty with this choice have revealed much about their values.

This is very good news, and hats off to Rep. Stupak and the other pro-life Democrats for their hard work in making this happen. In my mind, they are heroes.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.