The irony of wackjob Republicans using the epithet that they so despised in a different context(i.e. the American war in Vietnam) is rather cloying. Nevertheless, aside from this irony, until they start performing forcible hysterectomies on women of child-bearing age in order to prevent abortion, my ability to be surprised by the "pro-life" gaggle is not being taxed.

On the other hand, what a scumbag!

Cheers,

Just for fun, suppose the health "reform" bill just passed by the Democrats had attempted to make exclusionary exceptions for women's breasts. You could get treatment for breast cancer, but only if no federal dollars were involved, and that would mean that you had to buy a separate rider, and so on--just the way it is for the medical procedure known as abortion and for other medical procedures that demagogues on the right deliberately confuse with abortion.

Does anyone think a bill with breast exclusions would have passed? Even been entertained?

So why is a woman covered for certain things involving her breasts, but not for certain things involving her uterus?

It's obvious that the difference between a breast and a uterus is that a breast can produce milk, whereas a uterus can incubate a baby.

So if someone is a Democrat, and if that Democrat is saying that the unique difference between the breast and the uterus justifies special uterine exclusions when it comes to women's health care coverage, then what that Democrat is really doing is arguing for the rights of the fetus over a woman's right to self-determination and autonomy over her own body.

It's not a new position. It's the so-called right-to-life position. It has a long history.

And if that position is a Democrat's position, and if other Democrats (such as Chris Bowers) are issuing apologias for that position but still taking what they themselves can get (even though it makes them "sad," and even if all they get is a sense of satisfaction because other groups have not had their rights challenged and trampled), then it's time for all those Democrats just to claim that position and come out as right-to-lifers.

I live in Texas, and as much as I love it, I can not stand the whole fake civility in public followed by pure mean spiritedness behind closed doors.

Words are words and if the men and women who make laws can't handle a few foul words, it's time they found other employment.