Another Day, Another Sell-Out...

Bambi Obama decides it's time to show femnists the same sort of love he's shown progressives, anti-war types, environmentalists and the LGBT community:

The new managers amendment to the merged Senate bill incorporates Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-PA) language strengthening the segregation of private and public funds and increasing federal support for adoptions, with a new provision that would allow states “to prohibit abortion coverage in qualified health plans offered through an Exchange in such State if such State enacts a law to provide for such prohibition”.

In other words, states can opt-out of abortion coverage that goes beyond the Hyde amendment. A state may also repeal the prohibition and allow plans in the exchange to offer abortion coverage, so long as those procedures are financed with private premiums.

In states that don’t prohibit abortion coverage within the exchange, federal dollars can only be used to pay for abortions when the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother or results from rape or incest; private premiums must be used to pay for any other type of abortion, including those for health reasons. Each exchange will also have to offer at least one plan that does not offer abortion.

It will be interesting to see just how many of within the femnist community manage to excuse Obama for this amazing sell-out. I suspect most will... The point of interest will be their so-called justifications for giving Bambi a pass.

And these people think Joe Lieberman and Mitch McConnell are the enemy...

Comments

[just passin by]

these people THINK a lot of things that aren't in the realm of reality

[Randy Rager]

I really don't think Obama is competent enough to be blamed for this or any other part of the Medical System Destruction Bill.

Doesn't mean I won't try to hang it on him every chance I get though, after all the crap I've put up with from the fucking Democrats for the last 25 years. Reagan and both Bush's got blamed for plenty of shit they had exactly zero control over, and I intend to see exactly the same treatment ladled out to every Democrat that ever holds office for the forseeable future.

[richard mcenroe]

"We must pass! uh, this bill that I! uh, have not read either!" (Waves hands as though fondling an invisible Chris Matthews)

Problem is, they're caught on their own language. If abortion is a matter of choice, but you make it mandatory for people who don't believe in abortion to pay for abortions, then doesn't that mean the abortions you are forcing them to involve themselves in aren't a matter of choice.

And of course, this is going to kill a lot of black people. African Americans already abort their pregnancies at a 55% average nationwide (as high as 70% in some states). For those of you who trust Democrats with your money, that's a slow extermination level, made worse by the already shorter life expectancies of African Americans, not coincidentally one of the demographics that make the most use of our existing government health care.

Not that that should matter to the descendant of slave traders Barack Obama. He knows in his bones there are more where they came from.

[David]

"It will be interesting to see just how many of within the femnist community manage to excuse Obama for this amazing sell-out."

The Clinton paradigm will be followed. With Clinton it was "He's a POS, but he's our POS." Same with this clown. God, he's a fuckin' moron.

[Masturbatin' Pete]

What's the ultimate motivation to excuse The One? I can understand selling out, but at least Judas got thirty pieces of silver out of the deal. What's the left getting that's worth all these concessions? I have two thoughts:

(1) Everyone knows that the government always gets bigger and never gets smaller. This bill is a small step towards socializing the whole system. It's not going to be turned back once it's signed in to law. All the GOP ever does (at best) is slow the rate of growth. So maybe the left doesn't get Canadian-style single-payer today, but this is another step in that direction.

(2) All that matters to the left on the abortion issue is who Obama puts on the Supreme Court. As long as he appoints the correct justices, all legislative restrictions on abortion are nearly toothless.