Abortion and Health Care Reform
Considering the Merits of the Stupak Amendment
By: Joseph Sforza
Issue date: 12/15/09 Section: Opinion
If the government truly cares for the health of women, it would prevent them from even having abortions, which are most often the result of irresponsible behavior and are followed by painful regret and deep depression. Sorrow, anger and shame are so pervasive in the lives of women who have had abortions that Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS) has been unofficially coined to describe the emotional condition.
In an anonymous statement meandering throughout the Internet, someone wrote, "Everyone who supported slavery was free. Everyone who supports abortion was born. That's how oppression works. 'They're not really people!' We've heard that before!"
Nearly fifty million babies have been murdered since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled abortion to be legal. My case against abortion is uncomplicated and straightforward: since human life begins at conception, abortion is murder, and murder is utterly immoral.
The only way to avoid this contention is to assert that the unborn are not individuals. The trouble with that assertion is that the only "beings" that fetuses can be are human beings. Saying they are not is an irrational rationalization.
I highly oppose health care reform as proposed by the Democrats in both chambers of Congress, for it is, in actuality, costly and inefficient, and the attempt to create a compromise through the Stupak amendment is disingenuous. However, my conviction about abortion is stronger than that which opposes socialized medicine.
If health care reform passes in the House as well as the Senate, I would undoubtedly hope that the Stupak amendment is part of the package.
In an anonymous statement meandering throughout the Internet, someone wrote, "Everyone who supported slavery was free. Everyone who supports abortion was born. That's how oppression works. 'They're not really people!' We've heard that before!"
Nearly fifty million babies have been murdered since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled abortion to be legal. My case against abortion is uncomplicated and straightforward: since human life begins at conception, abortion is murder, and murder is utterly immoral.
The only way to avoid this contention is to assert that the unborn are not individuals. The trouble with that assertion is that the only "beings" that fetuses can be are human beings. Saying they are not is an irrational rationalization.
I highly oppose health care reform as proposed by the Democrats in both chambers of Congress, for it is, in actuality, costly and inefficient, and the attempt to create a compromise through the Stupak amendment is disingenuous. However, my conviction about abortion is stronger than that which opposes socialized medicine.
If health care reform passes in the House as well as the Senate, I would undoubtedly hope that the Stupak amendment is part of the package.
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