Health care becomes the new abortion

We have all been fighting over national healthcare for over a year now. The thinking from the supporters of healthcare have the opinion that if we just get this passed, then everyone will support it once we find out how great this is. Some of the other arguments in favor of national healthcare is that it will help the poor. In fact, this seems to be a typical  argument of anything that the supporters of government at all costs. This should sound familar to those who remember the abortion debates of the 80's and 90's. We still have not finished that argument to this day.

It seems to me that we are going down that same road again. Abortion was opposed in the beginning as well. The people did not want abortion on demand in 1973. Today, we are being given something else that we do not want in national health care. For those that think that we will all accept this when healthcare is made legal, you will soon find out that this will not be the case.

There is something else that I have noticed as I was looking up some of the quotes from the time that abortion was legalized against the objections of a very large portion of the people of this country. It's contained in this quote:

For those who cannot be educated, sterilization or legalized abortion seems to be the only remedy, for we certainly do not want such stupid people to pollute the race with stupid offspring. The defective conditions of life call urgently for improvement - Norman Haire, letter to the editor, Birth Control Review, (July, 1930)

The idea from this quote is that there are those who think that they know better and that they must make decisions for us because we are stupid and ignorant. Well, there are people who feel the exact same way again. The comedian Bill Maher, who is about as mainstream liberal as the get recently had this to say:

“But what the Democrats never understand is that Americans don't really care what position you take, just stick with one,” Maher said. “Just be strong. They're not bright enough to really understand the issues. But like an animal, they can sort of sense strength or weakness. They can smell it on you.”


It is so typical that they both think that those who are not in agreement with them are stupid. The frightening thing is that people like this have been trying to get control over us for decades and are close to getting it.

Now you may think that comparing these two quote are not the same since that Maher is not calling for people to be killed, then bear in mind this. A woman in Oregon named Barbara Wagner found out that she had a return of cancer. Her only hope was a $4,000.00 per month drug. The insurance company would not pay for her drugs. What the Oregon Health Plan (the government run health care plan ) would pay for was pills for her to commit suicide. Ms Wagner said "It was horrible," Wagner told ABCNews.com. "I got a letter in the mail that basically said if you want to take the pills, we will help you get that from the doctor and we will stand there and watch you die. But we won't give you the medication to live."

In my opinion it would seem that the Bill Mahers of the world are not to far from the Norman Haire's of the world. The difference is that at least Mr Haire knew what he was actually aiming for. In the case of Mr Maher who obviously either does not have the slighest clue where what he wants will lead or does not care.

What has to be considered, is that what happend to Miss Wagner may well be the future of all of us if this health care bill goes through. Those who support it will be very indignant about even thinking that this will happen. I am equally sure that the people of Oregon did not think it would come to this, but the reast of us knew it would. That's what happens when you have a healthy fear of government versus those who have an unhealthy trust in it.