Real Anti-Choice Agenda Revealed in Attack on Anti-Choice Dems

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Real Anti-Choice Agenda Revealed in Attack on Anti-Choice Dems

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

April 26, 2010 - 7:00am
Published under: Access to Abortion | Contraception | Maternal Health | Women’s Rights |

It was a small news item in Politico, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36173.htmlbut one that unwittingly revealed the truth behind one of the most persistent myths about the anti-choice movement, which is that they are “single issue” voters. The story is simple. A number of anti-choice groups have decided to target anti-choice Democrats who voted for health care reform, even though there’s no reality-based reason to think the law provides funding for abortion. In other words, the anti-choice movement is coming closer to coming clean about how they simply carry the water for the entire conservative movement, and cynically use fear-mongering over abortion to push for a whole host of right wing agenda items.

Let’s be clear: There is nothing “pro-life” about opposition to universal health care. In a reality-based world, in order to earn the moniker “pro-life”, one should support life, and few things do much better at achieving that goal than demanding inexpensive, efficient, universal health care. Even if you’re just pro-birth, you should love universal health care, since having it is the major reason most other industrialized nations have lower infant mortality rates than we do. If you’re motivated by loathing for sexually-active women, it’s hard to say why you should care much about health care reform in any direction, since the amount of health care dedicated to protecting the sexual health of women is a small amount of overall health care spending. If you’re a single issue voter on abortion, health care reform shouldn’t really matter to you one way or another.

more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36173.html