The United States of Iran
November 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM Leave a comment
No, we don’t have Ayatollahs telling us how to live our lives, but we do have Catholic Bishops:
A restriction on abortion coverage, added late Saturday to the health care bill passed by the House, has energized abortion opponents with their biggest victory in years — emboldening them for a pitched battle in the Senate.
The provision would block the use of federal subsidies for insurance that covers elective abortions. Advocates on both sides are calling Saturday’s vote the biggest turning point in the battle over the procedure since the ban on so-called partial birth abortions six years ago.
Both sides credited a forceful lobbying effort by Roman Catholic bishops with the success of the provision, inserted in the bill under pressure from conservative Democrats.
The Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves because this violates one of their fundamental, founding principles: The separation of church and state. It is absolutely outrageous and I think it’s time to think about revoking the tax-exempt status of churches.
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