Some pro-choice organizations are more than a tad miffed that the Democrats in power aren't making any efforts to overturn the Hyde Amendment and are promising that no federal dollars will be used to pay for abortion under health care reform:
"But what we're being offered is not enough," she said, contending that President Obama had "traded many women's futures away" when he assured Congress on Sept. 9 that the new health plan would provide no public funds for abortion.
"In the day-to-day world outside Congress, access to abortion is not a bargaining chip or a political football," Poggi said. "It's about whether women have the chance to live healthy lives. ...It's about whether poor women and girls and women of color matter as much as other people."
I wish pro-choice folks would add the qualifier of, "some women". If you are a women in the womb, being killed isn't exactly "living a healthy life".
Notice that the "poor women and girls and women of color" do not include unborn Black, Latino, Asian, etc. little girls. It rings so hallow to cry "justice!" when the MOST weak and defenseless are killed as the means to pursuing this "justice".
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