Liberal believe you have an absolute right to an abortion but not to life saving cancer treatment?
Once Nationalized Health Care is implemented and rationing of health care begins, how will the Obama liberals reconcile this discrepancy? Abortion available on demand. Life saving cancer treatment denied. While I would hate to see children punished with a baby, just like the president, an abortion is rarely performed as a life saving procedure but certainly will be available under Obamacare. However life saving cancer treatments will certainly be denied on the basis of cost containment how do you reconcile these positions?
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life saving cancer treatments won't be denied, where are you getting this information. and lets not bring the issue of abortion into this, because thats a fight your gonna lose
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life saving cancer treatments will NOT be denied next !
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No one is proposing nationalized health care, so all of your statements are false.
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I'm a liberal and I believe you have a right to the life saving cancer treatment.
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It's all about cutting costs. Fewer welfare babies, fewer tax dollars spent on welfare babies once they are born. Fewer old people laying around, fewer tax dollars spent on treating them. Look up Ruth Ginsburg. She's a hoot.
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I don't, it's all wrong. But something needs to happen. This is how I see abortions, we are going to pay either way: Either through a $500 abortion procedure, through the normally unwed, young mom when she goes on assistance or if she places the child in foster care. Either way, tax payers are going to pay something for that child. But I do think we should pay for life threatening illnesses like cancer (or stage 1 renal failure in my daughter's case) it is too expensive for the average american to afford.
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Obama's top domestic priority. Abortion is not mentioned in the 1,018-page bill that Democratic leaders hope will be approved by the last of three House committees this week. Supporters of the legislation say that means the bill is neutral. But abortion opponents say the bill's silence is precisely the problem. Without an explicit prohibition on federal funding for abortion, it could be included in taxpayer-subsidized coverage offered through the health overhaul plan, abortion opponents say. "We cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan," a group of 20 Democratic representatives said in a June 25 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. When the legislation was unveiled last week, it failed to include language abortion opponents were seeking. Now they are going public. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who helped draft the letter to Pelosi, plans to join lawmakers of both parties Wednesday at a news conference to criticize the legislation. The Supreme Court has established a woman's right to abortion, but federal law prohibits government funds from being used to pay for the procedure in most cases. However, nearly 90 percent of employer-based private insurance plans routinely cover abortion. Obama, who supports abortion rights, sidestepped a question on the brewing controversy. "Rather than wade into that issue at this point, I think that it's appropriate for us to figure out how to just deliver on the cost savings and not get distracted by the abortion debate," the president said in an interview with CBS News
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Liar liar pants on fire, you no that's not true, why do you try and scare people. The republican party is the party of fear and hate. You should be ashamed.
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This is not a liberal view but a political view. For example, myself as a liberal I am an advocate of abortion rights, euthanasia and free health care. The political reason for life saving cancer treatment being denied is economical rather than political or social. An abortion only cost $350 on average per person. A life saving cancer treatment cost thousands and thousands of dollars which the government cannot provide unless it raises taxes. Most European countries where abortion is legal and have a free health care system do pay a significant amount of taxes. Countries like Switzerland and the Netherlands where free health care is available also have legal abortion on demand and have legalized euthanasia. The tax rate on individual income as well as the sales taxes are fairly high in comparison to the US, however the interesting thing is that these countries do have per the latest statistics a higher standard of living, lower crime rate, higher life expectancy and better health care and school system, and higher GDP per capita than the US even if they significantly pay higher taxes. The problem does not underlie in how liberal a country is since most of the most liberal European countries are much better off than the US in all aspects, but it underlies on our past management, the conservative movement that wants to grab onto Washington like a thick on a fat dog and the religious fundamentalists that want to put this country back it the dark ages.
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