More Health Care

The debate goes on over proposed health care reform. Now it appears that it will not pass. Already I am hearing from some that the fault lies with those who oppose abortion on demand who are holding health care reform "hostage" to their extreme views. As one who thinks that our present health care system is broken, let me just say that I completely disagree with this characterization. Quite simply, there was a small group of Democratic Representatives in the US House of Representatives who let it be known early on that they would not vote for any reform that allowed Federal money to be used, either directly or indirectly, to pay for abortions. When you consider abortion murder, you really can do no other. It would be tantamount to allowing Federal money to be used to kill the elderly or the handicapped because someone had decided that they were less than human, or of no further use to society, or even just plain inconvenient - still the major cause for abortions in the US. Though Pelosi is an extremist on the side of unlimited abortions, she understood that the bill had no hope unless an amendment put forward by Rep. Stupak was adopted. Once it was, the bill passed. It then went to the Senate. And though they knew that the bill had no chance unless the Stupak language was included, they passed their version of the bill without the language. And that is where we stand. Did some Senators overplay their hand? Probably - I don't think they really thought that they would lose the Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy. But now they are trying to rewrite history by portraying those Democrats who have let their principle stand be known from the very beginning as "obstructionists" who value their "extreme" view more than the health care of some 31 million Americans. To those "obstructionists," I say - "keep obstructing." The lives of the unborn are not negotiable. Or so it seems to me.

Pastor Ken