Religious RIght Linking Health Care Reform to Abortion

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Abortion Foes Rally Online Against Health Care Reform

By William Wan

Abortion foes -- including some leaders among religious conservatives -- put on a massive webcast last night aimed at rallying anti-abortion forces against current health care reform bills in Congress.

If the organization and strident words during the webcast are any indication, the anti-abortion tide that is rising against President Obama's health care plan may shape up to be a sizable force in coming weeks. The webcast was notable for strong invective and apparently large turnout, and it laid out plans for continuing campaigns in coming weeks. ...

Some highlights from the webcast:

* James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, opens his pre-recorded message with this opening salvo: "The health care bill being advanced by congress is the abortion advocates' dream come true."

* Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, equates the health care plan to "a stealth agenda to impose FOCA ."

* Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, made claims that are sure to be challenged by abortion rights advocates that the proposed health care reform will be a bailout bill for abortion clinics and groups like Planned Parenthood.

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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/godingovernment/2009/07/abortion_foes_rally_online_against_healthcare_bills.html

More at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/randall-terry-warns-random-acts-violence

Randall Terry Warns of "Random Acts of Violence" over Healthcare Legislation
By Christian | July 21, 2009 - 4:34pm

At a typical Randall Terry press conference one can expect to hear all sorts of overheated rhetoric about abortion – that it’s murder, that abortion clinics are places of "mass genocide," and so forth. But in recent weeks, he has amped up his rhetoric to insane new heights over the healthcare legislation before Congress, which he claims would pay for “child-killing.”

Earlier this week Terry called for the rejection of the bill and warned of "violent convulsions" of a level that hasn't been seen since the Civil War if the bill is passed

At today’s press conference, however, Terry was quick to point out that he has supposedly been a "non-violent" leader for 25 years, and he ridiculed those who accuse him and other right-wing leaders of "stirring up domestic terrorism” ... ~snip~

[BOSSHOG]

1. We should redirect subject money

to making more bombs so we can kill more innocent non-white civilians to placate the christian conservative pro lifers.

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2. They link everything to abortion.

The rights' standard positions on issues:

How can you be against the death penalty and be for killing the unborn?

How can you be against the war and for killing the unborn?

How can you be for civil rights and against the rights of the unborn?

etcetera, etcetera, etcetera

[hedgehog]

3. They're late to the party.

The Mother and Child Scheme was a healthcare programme in the Republic of Ireland that would later become remembered as a major political crisis involving primarily the Irish Government and Roman Catholic Church in the early 1950s.

In 1950, Browne proposed introducing a scheme which would provide free maternity care for all mothers and free healthcare for all children up to the age of sixteen, regardless of income. It met with ferocious opposition from conservative elements in the Catholic hierarchy and the medical profession. The Catholic Church leadership was divided between those like Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid who believed that it was the exclusive right of all parents to provide healthcare for their child, and younger moderates like William Philbin who saw some merit in state assistance to families. Some bishops, like McQuaid, also feared that it could pave the way for abortion and birth control. Though some Catholic Church leaders may have been privately sympathetic to Browne and wished to reach an accommodation, what was viewed as Browne's tactless handling of the Catholic Church forced the moderates into silence, allowing the anti-Mother and Child Scheme members of the hierarchy under McQuaid to set the agenda.<4>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_and_Child_Scheme

[niceypoo]

4. Exercise the nuclear option and shut out the GOP completely

problem solved