Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York just took to the floor of the House this hour to make a prediction. Slaugher spoke regarding the Stupak Amendment to be voted upon soon, an amendment to forbid women in a national health care system from getting health care coverage for abortions — even if they pay for the coverage out of their own pocket.
Slaughter’s prediction:
“I am very concerned about this bill because in my own case (and many of my colleagues’) it means 30 or 40 years of our life is being cancelled out with this amendment. The things that we have fought for, that we are driving now? I am afraid young women, poor women who cannot afford to buy their own insurance policy out of their own pocket, will go back. Back to the back alley. I dread to see that day.”
As if these fops give a twinkie for “the poor,” “the homeless,” or any other low-turnout group at the polls. . .
Don’t look to government for anything but making our (non-wealthy, non-corporate) lives more miserable by degree as their intent to “fix” all our social troubles meets right-wing, religio-dogmatic “principles” that our supposed fore-fathers (in this current troubled interpretation) would insist upon.