The Guttmacher Institute also routinely reports showing that when public funding is not available, 30 percent fewer women who receive Medicaid have abortions. Now, this is interesting because it means 30 percent more babies whose mothers receive government-subsidized health care survive because of abortion-funding restrictions. And this is, I think, particularly important for women and men in the African American communities, in the Latino communities. In communities of color, we see a very high
percentage of abortions. And I know one of our colleagues, Congressman Trent Franks, speaks about this often. He has a tremendous heart, as we do as well, for unborn children in the minority community because such a grossly high percentage of babies in the African American/Latino community are aborted, and we don't want to see that.
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These babies add to the richness of the American fabric just as Caucasian babies do. All babies are valuable, but what we're seeing is an even higher percentage of babies who are losing their lives in the minority community. In particular, we see this with minorities as they access Medicaid funding. If they have Medicaid funding, government funding, we'll see more abortions, and we'll see that particularly in the minority communities.
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How's that for an insensitive thought-process? Cynically deny poor people - especially poor people of color - acess to Medicaid, and there will be less abortions!
BRILLIANT!!! Well, for Michele, that is....Bizarrely, Michele goes on:
This is a common-ground issue, I think, that we can share with those who embrace a pro-abortion view and with those who embrace a pro-life view because the polls have shown very clearly that the majority of Americans do not support taxpayer-funded abortion. They don't support it. We are here to represent the will and the interests of the American people. That's not where the American people are right now. They don't want to see us spending their money when we don't have much, when this government
is in the red--in red ink up to our eyeballs. We don't have money to pay for the intentional murder of unborn children.
The Obama budget changes this Dornan amendment (emphasis added), as my colleague Mrs. Schmidt has said, to the Financial Services' appropriations bill, so the publicly funded abortions will, once again, be available in the District of Columbia. Right here where we stand this evening, this is the District of Columbia. So now, once again, President Obama is expanding abortion. Instead of making it rare, instead of making it safer, this is making more abortions, particularly for pre-born babies of color.(C-Span)
"...pre-born babies of color." As opposed, say, to "post-born"? Is Michele playing the race card to garner sypmathy here, when the real issues for Bachmann and her ilk are 1) - keepin' folk off the dole, and 2) - denying local control for the citizens of W.D.C. which, of course, is something GOPers like to claim they're really for (except when they're not).
The "Dornan Amendment" essentially prevents the citizens of Washington D.C. from using local funds to provide abortions - except in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the life of the mother. Bachmann and her ilk want to keep W.D.C. in the company of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Wyoming - where local funds cannot be used for abortion except in cases of rape or incest.
Except, here's the difference - those states, just listed, made that decision themselves, which is something the citizens of Washington D.C. don't get to do. And Bachmann and her hyocritical ilk - GOPers elected elsewhere - would prefer to keep it that way; keep it as it's been since GOPer Bob Dornan from California got that amendment stuck in there over 20 years ago.
Like I said, GOPers like local control (except when they don't).
Even more hypocritical, is Bachmann standing up for an amendment Dornan passed, as Dornan has quite a reputation as a bigot.
Don't take my word for that; go to Amazon.com and buy a copy of Dornan's book - quaintly titled "Shut Up, Fag!: Quotations from the Files of Congressman Bob Dornan, the Man Who Would Be President"
The NY Times has Dornan once saying about an electoral opponent: "Every lesbian spear chucker in this country is hoping I get defeated."
That story was - to no surprise, from me - about Dornan's run for the GOP Endorsement for President of the good ol' USofA.
Dornan's bigotry is available in book form through Amazon.com; Bachmann's bizarre bigotry is potentially available every time she gets behind a microphone. |
