As the variegated nuances of Obamacare will continue to unfold, where this legislation will continue to be touted as "all things for all people", there is one aspect that has become crystal clear. We have increasingly been inundated with the mantra of providing full and comprehensive coverage for women's healthcare. I have absolutely no problem with that. I don't know of anyone who would agrue against the improved health of any human being when vast leaps have been made in the technology of medicine. The fairest sex should be provided with only the best that healthcare has to offer.
However, just as this principle is both just and evident there is another side to this issue that is also abundantly clear in the politics of morality. It is this: when those who live this side of Roe v. Wade claim the inalienable right to "women's healthcare", what they really mean is abortion. Yes, the "inalienable right" to kill the unborn regardless to any and all moral claims to the contrary. Just as Roe let the genie forever out of the bottle it only follows that abortion should be enshrined as the golden calf desired by all women. So the feminists would have us believe. If these women and their supporters were to be truly forthright in their language then each time they intoned "women's healthcare" they would instead say "abortion." For all of the many truly necessary and legitimate concerns that fall under women's health that require medical assistance abortion is the one that is a choice. Why should taxpayer money subsidize a lifestylye choice that some women and their partners make when in so doing these taxpayers would be violating their sacred beliefs? Isn't that what is at the root of the Catholic Church's protest against the Obamacare mandate? But to the point, why is women's healthcare being so politicized if not for the unaviodably religious/political nature of abortion?
This deeply moral grounding of Roe/abortion has finally come to fruition in the vineyard of Obamacare and the nation's teeth are set on edge. The reality is that women who reserve the "right" to terminate a pregnancy want this ability to be enmeshed along with all the other healthcare services to such an extent that they all acquire that same moral weight. But is having a breast exam or pap smear really the same as having an abortion? If so, why not say uniquivocally that the desire for comprehensive women's healthcare is really the play for unhindered access to abortion? Let's call a spade a spade and stop the symantic nonsense. We need to be crystal clear about how we view and treat the most defenseless among us so that babies will be truly safe in a place where they should be sacred: in their mother's womb.
