If you can require separate riders for abortion why can't you demand riders for birth control or

[dkf]

Aids or stds or alcohol related illnesses or obesity? Can society target procedures for those things associated with "sins"? Isn't this a slippery slope?

[Ken Burch]

1. I'm thinking they'll never be rider forbidding doctors to spend federal reimbursement funds

On scotch, steak dinners and cigars at the country club.

[dkf]

2. Lol.

Oh so true.

[Starry Messenger]

3. I'm sure that will be next.

People are fooling themselves if they are secretly speculating that this rider idea is only going to go towards abortion and they don't have to worry about their shit. Worry. Abortion is only the pilot episode for the new series.

[ananda]

4. Boy, is it ever!

And that slope is getting slippier every damm day.

[katandmoon]

5. It's only female reproductive rights that threaten the male religious right.

That is the real issue here.

[Odin2005]

6. +1

[BrklynLiberal]

7. If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

[Joe Bacon]

8. Yes, attach a rider for Viagra, Cialis and Levitra!

It's only fair.