No abortions federally funded.

[Horse with no Name]

Sigh.

[LisaM]

1. I agree.

You know, some of those tax dollars are mine.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That's been the law for years -- 1976, the Hyde Amendment.

I don't like it, but it's not new.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Doesn't make it right, does it? n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. No. But unfortunately it is unlikely to change any time soon.

Abortion is too big a fund-raising tool for the GOP.

[Horse with no Name]

8. It's a pretty big fundraising tool for BOTH parties

Ours needing money to keep it legal...theirs needing money to make it illegal.
Works out well for all, wouldn't you say?
Kind of like a political football?

[Lars39]

3. I booed.

We're such a back-assward country. :(

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Publiclly funded abortions is a sure-fire way to kill any reform plan

[geekgrrl]

6. I know. But it disheartens me, anyways. It is a women's health issue. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

9. And they haven't been for decades. Hyde Amendment is still in effect.

[undeterred]

10. It takes away a sore point.

We should start a foundation which provides funding for women who need abortions and cannot afford them.

[bain_sidhe]

11. Yes, because anti-choicer's tax dollars are so much more

deserving of respect and influence than other people's tax dollars are. Can't have those special-rights people's tax dollars paying for things THEY don't like. Of course the rest of us have to sit by and watch our tax dollars spent for things we find abhorrent, because we have no special rights.