{"id":188889,"date":"2010-07-13T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/13\/there-is-no-room-for-compromise-on-abortion\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:11:00","slug":"there-is-no-room-for-compromise-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/13\/there-is-no-room-for-compromise-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"There is No Room for Compromise on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same folks who bought you the draconian restrictions on abortion in Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare bill are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-07-12\/the-coming-battle-over-the-cost-of-birth-control\/\">lobbying to ban federal coverage for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> forms of birth control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear here, this is not about meaningful policy.  They just want to punish women for having sex:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Polls suggest the majority of Americans would support such a policy. But  the Daily Beast has learned that many conservative activists, who spent  most of their energies during the health-care reform fight battling to  win abortion restrictions and abstinence-education funding, are just  waking up to the possibility that the new health care law could require  employers and insurance companies to offer contraceptives, along with  other commonly prescribed medications, without charging any co-pay. Now  the Heritage Foundation and the National Abstinence Education  Association say that, like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, they  oppose implementation of the new provisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This why there is no meaningful space for discussion for these people.<\/p>\n<p>They use terrorism against doctors, they are working to make birth control unavailable at pharmacies, and now they are trying to exclude birth control from prescription coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Enough is enough.  These people are not the opposition, they are the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/07\/against-contraception.html\">Atrios<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/07\/against-contraception.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same folks who bought you the draconian restrictions on abortion in Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare bill are now lobbying to ban federal coverage for all forms of birth control. Let&#8217;s be clear here, this is not about meaningful policy. They just want to punish women for having sex: Polls suggest the majority of Americans would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,969,1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}