A recent missive from the Family Research Council bore the headline, “The Gloves Come Off.” What major moral values issue were they referring to, I wondered. Was the Obama administration planning an aggressive effort to promote abortion or gay marriage?
\nActually, the Family Research Council issued a call to arms over Obama’s plan to push expanded health care early in the administration. “Among other things, Obama’s plan would increase Medicaid spending, expand anti-parental features of the State Children’s health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and overhaul medical records technology,” FRC warned.
\nA couple of weeks ago, Jill Stanek, an influential pro-life activist, wrote an article listing the pro-choice activists working for Obama. About Tom Daschle, the health care czar, she wrote:. “Daschle is a rabid pro-abort who also detests abstinence education and supports nationalized health care, i.e. taxpayer-funded abortions.”
\nStay tuned to see if opposition to national health care becomes a new Pro-Family issue.
\nUPDATE: Jill Stanek elaborates in an email:<\/p>\n
“As a pro-lifer I oppose nationalized health care because of the liberal
\ninsistence on abortion coverage. Hillary wanted it, Obama wants it, and
\nDaschle wants it, to name three.
\nFurther and as a related aside, pro-lifers are part of a group pushing for
\nthe free market offering of privatized interstate health insurance of one’s
\nchoice – not tied to one’s employer if one desires, and not regulated so one
\ncan only purchase from a company within one’s own state.
\nThis would allow pro-lifers to choose health insurance companies that do not
\ncover abortion and\/or birth control. That is the real “pro-choice” position
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