Salon - "GOP’s newest demented crusade: War on mothers"

[TomCADem]

The GOP compares having a baby with buying a Porsche.

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/11/gops_newest_demented_crusade_war_on_mothers/

Conservatives continue to be outraged by the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that basic insurance policies cover maternity and newborn care. When Rep. Renee Ellmers, the chair of the House GOP Women’s Policy Committee, asked Kathleen Sebelius “Has a man ever delivered a baby?” she was introducing her party’s best new argument against Obamacare. Forget “death panels;” now we have “birth panels,” which force Americans to pay for the continuation of the human species whether they want to or not.

You would think the supposedly “pro-life” party would be happy to put the power of the government behind keeping pregnant women and unborn babies safe and healthy. We should never let her lack of access to prenatal and newborn care make a woman decide abortion is a better choice, right?

Wrong. In fact, the right’s campaign against maternity coverage has only gotten more strident. Just Monday morning, Harvard economist and George W. Bush Council of Economic Advisors chair Greg Mankiw argued against such coverage with the worst analogy yet:

But having children is more a choice than a random act of nature. People who drive a new Porsche pay more for car insurance than those who drive an old Chevy. We consider that fair because which car you drive is a choice. Why isn’t having children viewed in the same way?

[dionysus]

1. proceed, GOP.

[Blue Owl]

2. The GOP: Now What?

[CTyankee]

3. the gop is losing their grasp of reality...that is a bad thing for them to have happen...

once you start looking at society in terms of moochers and producers, you start losing track of what you are really talking about: people's lives. really psycho behavior...

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

4. Uh yeah, right!

Children are commodities me arse! I love mine to death, yet if viewed as commodities I'd have taken them back long ago for some sort of warranty violation. It makes you want to smack 'em real good, the Rethugliklans, not the children.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Their hypocracy is amazing

You'd think the party of "Family Values" would support such care.