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- From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
- Subject: Re: DID BUSH KILL HIS CHANCES BY NOT ATTACKING FOCA?
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:42:09 GMT
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- <phil.722110508@seidel> (Philip Papadopoulos) writes:
- >> Get as many abortions as you want.. Just don't ask me... to pay for it"
-
- <1992Nov18.212720.21716@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- > Do your tax dollars go to pay for abortions? I was under the
- > impression that this may be the case in California, and I don't
- > know where you post from.
-
- According to columnist Debra Saunders, the MediCal program in
- California pays for the abortions of poor women.
-
- > Federal tax dollars do not pay for
- > abortions except, I believe, for military personnel.
-
- I don't think so. There was a change of policy on abortions at
- military hospitals this year, but I don't think tax dollars
- are paying for them. As I recall, service women stationed
- overseas in some countries have a very difficult (if not
- impossible) time finding abortion providers. Congress acted
- this year to lift a previous ban on abortions in military
- hospitals in these circumstances. The abortions may now be
- performed in military hospitals, but I believe the service
- woman requesting the abortion must foot the bill. I suppose
- there is some federal support (tax money built the hospital),
- but it is rather indirect.
-
- As I recall, this all happened several months ago. There may
- have been a more recent change, but if so, I missed it.
-
- > Could you clarify why you believe your tax dollars pay for abortions?
-
- I'm not sure that Philip Papadopoulos was complaining about a current
- policy. He may have been pleading that no new policy of public
- support for abortion be enacted. His concern is a valid one, IMHO.
- Our new president has promised a national health care plan of
- some sort in the next year. The ideology of abortion rights
- organizations is that abortion is just another medical procedure.
- NARAL's Kate Michelman has stated publicly her view that public
- supported abortion will be part of the new health care plan as
- a matter of course -- there is no need for a separate debate
- at all in her view. The public voted for an activist health
- care policy, and in her view, no health care program is complete
- with abortion services. Thus, public abortion services are just
- around the corner.
-
- There still a lot of mystery in the future of health care policy,
- but it is not irrational to be concerned about this. I hope that
- President Clinton will show the same appreciation of varying
- points of view on this matter as Candidate Clinton showed on
- the campaign trail. While never flinching from a pro-choice
- stance, Candidate Clinton did go out of his way on a few
- occasions to acknowledge the concerns of his opponents and
- to make statements that abortions are not desirable. I'm
- sure he is capable of making the distinction between support
- of liberty and support of action. I hope he is capable of
- making this argument against members of his coalition of
- support.
-
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- | Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis |
- | "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they |
- | please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we |
- |___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
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