When anti-choice bloggers are pissed about Obama’s wealth of pro-choice nominations.
(Try to ignore the blatant lies. My favorite is that nationalized healthcare = taxpayer funding for abortion).
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I read that (how did I know you were linking me to Stanek? lol) and couldn’t help but find what she said about all of those people comforting…no really…I was like “what’s wrong w/ that?”. I guess it’s a matter of perspective, eh Stanek?
Everything Stanek and her cronies are pissed about gives me a little reassurance.
She calls them cohorts of death, but it finally feels to me like we people who actually care about women’s lives.
It will be very interesting to see which ones will stand up to the scrutinty of Senate confirmation hearings. I’m not a liberal by an means, but you folks on the left had better pray that none of Obama’s “choices” turn out to be another Lani Guinier or Robert Bork. Or worst — Joycelyn Elders.
The right may be down for now, but they’re most certainly not out. Evangelicals still hold a lot of sway with the government.
Oh how I hate that vile woman and her crazy stick up her ass ideas. But that article made me laugh. I agree with Ouyang Dan about thinking “What’s wrong with that?”
I think it’s incredibly funny how she calls stem cell reasearch “human embryo experimentation industry”. She obviously has no idea what either stem cell research is nor what those little four words she calls it mean.
Masturbation has saved my life.
So, um…
Jocelyne Elders is da bomb.
Ooh, she wants Phill Kline to be AG.
/wipes tears of laughter from her eyes
Won’t nationalized health care entail public funding for abortions?
Granted, it is pretty absurd that she treats “nationalized health care” as just another name for “taxpayer funded abortions”.
anything that makes stanek mad makes me happy!
No. Hyde Amendment; there’s no reason to expect that will change only from health care being nationalized.
Angela: Ms. Guinier’s nomination was withdrawn. Bork just got rejected by the Senate.
My favorite is that nationalized healthcare = taxpayer funding for abortion
Well, it’s certainly ridiculous to think that the only reason someone would support nationalized health care is to pay for abortions. But nationalized healthcare can mean taxpayer funding for abortion… it does in Canada. (Although our anti-choicers are outraged by that and constantly trying to stop it).
Jill Stanek is a self-deluded moron. And if she doesn’t drop fifty pounds she’s gonna drop dead of a heart attack.
I hope that nationalized healthcare does mean taxpayer funding for abortions and birth control as well as pregnancy. The Hyde Amendment should be repealed. Family planning should be for all women not just middle class and wealthy women.
SoMG, the snarky weight comment is out of bounds. People can be fat and healthy just as people can be slender and unhealthy.
“rabid pro-abortion” and “pro-death” just made me laugh. Yes, all the people she listed are just waiting to get their hands on pregnant women and girls so they can coerce them into getting an abortion. /snark
I’m not sure I would go as far as to say that national healthcare equals taxpayer funding for abortion, but there is a point that can be made regarding the effect of national healthcare on individual choice. In a private healthcare market, individuals can purchase the procedures and medicine they want and can afford (“effective demand”). In essence, it is a private exchange. In any national healthcare system, coverage becomes a public political decision, with all the implications of such a system. These implications may often mean that political majorities will determine what is covered and what is not. I think that is a rather large gamble for those of us who stand for choice.
It will be an interesting experiment to see how reproductive services are provided if national healthcare passes, and religious conservatives regain working majorities in the government. I could easily foresee a world where abortion is legal, but not covered by the “national healthcare plan”. In such a scenario, a free market for healthcare would provide more coverage, with some at the margins unable to afford proper reproductive care. National healthcare could be a means whereby religious conservatives can promote their agenda without having to overturn Roe.