Irony or Hypocrisy, or Both?

The same folks who don't want the government interfering with their "right" to an abortion apparently have no problem asking that same government to let them pick our pockets to pay for it. In Pennsylvania, a group called Raising Women's Voices, a coalition of 27 pro-abortion organizations, held a rally to "highlight the importance of abortion coverage in the new health insurance exchanges required by the 2010 law."
This is an area where more must be done to combat the perception of some that abortion should be considered part of women's health care, right up there with pap smears and mammograms. Last week in Philadelphia, the news media and District Attorney's office continued to refer to the remains of the full-term dead babies in Kermitt Gosnell's horror chamber as "fetuses". Lots of complaints and corrections later, we are now hearing them correctly call them what they are - babies. Let's see if we can't get them to correct themselves on this issue.

And get ready for the arguments from the other side. You know, the one that says some abortions are necessary to save a woman's life. If you look at the statistics of those having late-term abortions for supposedly life-threatening conditions, you'd have to ask yourself what the CDC is doing about the epidemic of desperately ill women in this country. The numbers simply do not add up. If the number of women that sick they need an abortion to save their lives is accurate, it seems to me some of these women's groups are protesting for the wrong thing. They should be demanding to get to the bottom of what would have be a crisis of unimaginable proportions given the numbers. You know why you don't. Because they're full of it, and they know it.

Now, I'm not one of those folks who thinks the status-quo with the status of health care is just AOK. I do not think it is consistent with a pro-life philosophy to tell sick and injured people to suck it up if they can't afford coverage. I don't think it's consistent with pro-life beliefs to make children who, through no fault of their own, are born with chronic conditions, to be faced with no health insurance or exorbitant fees that make access impossible once they reach adulthood. That does not mean I support the current plan - in fact, I do not. But once it's defeated, I will be listening closely to see what the loudest opponents of the bill come up with so when we say we are pro-life, we mean it.