{"id":175,"date":"2009-09-16T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/quote-of-the-day-2.html"},"modified":"2009-09-16T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:40:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/quote-of-the-day-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;So, what are some of the basics of health care reform?<\/p>\n<p>Health care reform especially needs to protect those at the beginning of life and at its end &#8212; the most vulnerable and the voiceless. It is essential that reform include long-standing and widely supported federal restrictions on abortion funding and mandates and uphold existing conscience protections for health care providers. Abandoning current federal policies on abortion funding and conscience protection, thereby forcing people to pay for or participate in abortion would be morally reprehensible and a repudiation of the understanding of individual freedom and the rights of conscience that goes back to the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Universal coverage should be universal, including everyone. Health care reform cannot leave people out because of pre-existing conditions, chronic illnesses, their place of work or because they cannot afford insurance. 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