If this report is true, Max Baucus (D) will, in the vain hope of attracting Republican support for health care legislation, agree to mandate exclusion of abortion services. The idea that you will ever get a bipartisan bill is a chimera. Even if Baucus manages to buy one or two Republican votes, it will not be a bi-partisan bill. It will be a bill shaped to satisfy those one or two Republicans, and even then it will be ceaselessly attacked by the remaining 38. The folks who are actively pushing for this limitation will not be brought on board if it is adopted. This a fool me twice act on the part of the Democrats. How much did the water down the stimulus bill at the behest of Republicans who voted against it anyway.
As one commenter at the linked article notes, the Republicans have apparently made no move to deny Viagra to themselves or other males. Our moral judgments seem always to extend only to women. It would only take 3 or 4 Democratic Senators to put their feet down and stop this; maybe the women among them will do it, but don’t hold your breath.
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