Health bill nixes abortions, Kucinich votes no.
Posted by justinquincy , Nov, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
In last night’s historic, yet squeaker health care vote (220-215) in the House of Representatives, we learned a few different things other than just about the health care bill introduced by Speaker Pelosi and its terrible Republican alternative (which had really no talk of pre-existing conditions.) As expected, despite Obama’s last-minute pleas to vote their conscience over politics, most of the Blue Dog Democrats voted against the bill. The New York Times has a great graphic detailing how political considerations likely helped lead to the way these members voted.
But, among those Democrats who opposed the historic legislation was former presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich. This speaks volumes about the bill, and more than the mainstream media will likely trumpet, because they only like to emphasize the fact that there is a small and powerful right-wing minority in the country. Kucinich, likely opposing because of the strong anti-abortion measure in the bill, represents both a progressive left who still believes heavily in a woman’s right to choose and an increasingly larger center-left uncomfortable, whether politically or otherwise, with abortion. 67 Democrats helped to make sure a woman’s right to choose was abridged last night.
While I’ll tussle with abortion myself as an issue because it is messy and it can be psychologically damming, I’m not a woman and, at the end I remind myself that as a man I have control over my internal organs. There is no government telling me what I can and cannot do with my body.
What this bill does is to effectively send a message to America that abortion is indeed as an elective procedure as someone deciding they want a tummy tuck. Keeping things in the vain of health care (as opposed to the other reasons to protect a woman’s right to choose), we must recognize that while getting an abortion can be potentially pyschologically damaging for a mother to be (or not… for some people it really just isn’t), we must also consider how pyschologically damaging it is for a child who is unwanted. It’s two sides of the same coin.
To me, it seems like we shouldn’t be chipping away at a fundamental freedom but instead should be making the decision to have an abortion one that counsels great care, one that a certain piece of legislation could mandate, and send another kind of statement to America: a woman’s right to choose is upheld but only after we provide the best counseling possible, covered by your insurance.
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