I'd like to say thanks to the Obama Administration for passing a toxic POS legislature that was written by the Republicans back in the 1990's, when they had control over the House and the Senate, which will invariably result in people who buy into it continuing to pay exhorbitant co-pays, deductibles and premiums, etc., and whose protection against denials of insurance of pre-existing conditions won't kick in for afew years after it's passed, leaving many people to still die of treatable medical conditions, etc. The fact that Obama and his Administration took abortion rights off of the table to get this POS legislature that passes for "healthcare reform" passed. Obama and his Administration could've and should've done away with that disastrous "HCR" bill altogether, gone back to the drawing board, really put their heads together and constructed and passed a real comprehensive health care reform bill that entailed Single Payer with Universal Health care for all. Instead, the Obama Administration took the easy way out, which was bad enough, but the fact that abortion rights were hijacked, this makes this whole thing all the more disgusting.

Decades ago, we should have had a constitutional amendment that was simple.

"Congress shall make no law controlling what people do with or to their bodies"

But drug warriors saw where that would lead and those that want to control health care saw the downside and so here we are. I know there are people who vote for Obama and Democrats mainly because of abortion. How's that working out?

Since when is showing an ultra-sound picture of a mother's new baby "psychological torment"? Could it be that the specter of slaughtering this innocent child who has a heartbeat and feels pain would cause a woman with even a shred of compassion to be uncomfortable? America has seen and felt the horrific pain of the lies Planned Parenthood has callously trumpeted as "reproductive rights" that have destroyed whole generations. We can never live in peace if we continue to bring death to those most innocent among us. The goodness written in our hearts must prevail.

Let us pray.

Sioux Rose

So Arizona wants to export "illegal" aliens.

And Utah has essentially made it a crime to have a miscarriage.

And no child left behind leaves school teachers responsible for the worsening conditions in the lives of their students, those that make study (and scores on those all-important authoritarian tests) virtually impossible.

And Texas has designed (or was it funded?) Disney-style textbooks to rewrite American history in the most retrograde of styles.

And Missouri wants to tie social service benefits with having that next baby as the global population is already too much for the Great Earth Mother to bear.

Bottom line: Very few states have any money left in their budgets to implement sound policies, whatever the promises.

Solution? Send in the National Guard. That's right. All those right-to-life types who have no problem with war should see no issue with getting our brave troops to care for all those unwanted babies that will now risk being born.

Stay at home military dads, has a certain flare to it, I'd say. Homeland security can underwrite the necessary foster care operations. They're the only ones enjoying a budget surplus.

If abortion is under attack, we have the Uncle Tom in the White House, Pres. Obusha, to thank for. In fact has he done anything as president to displease his white masters?

Strange , true health reform means we all get better,affordable health care with access for all.

But, that means we should all live longer healthier lives.

The powers that be, the elite, are the only ones that wnat access to real long life health care , they want rest us of us to pay big bills , go broke, and die , so we cant collect social security.

They use the abortion issue to make them selves look holy, and scared protectors of life. What a crock of shit.

These religious lunatics thrive on control, its all about men and their control over their women.

When the evangelical leaders of this country that control the Sunday Air waves when talking about how Jesus does not approve of war, then they can have the bully pulpit to discuss abortion, other wise , their opinions on any kind of death is invalid and hypocritical.

I find the abortion debate in USA so hypocritical, when war, gun ownership for all and other kinds of violence are approved by the vast majority of so-called "right to lifers". I remember "W" introducing a National Day for the Sanctity of Life, of course only meaning before birth. Enough freedoms have been taken from you in the last few years, and women do not take abortion lightly.

Abortion was already under attack ever since Casey vs Planned Parenthood. As for MO, we already have enough anti-abortion gags and this just one adds to the list. The biggest anti-abortion gag comes from Obamacare. If a woman can't use her coverage to get an abortion she otherwise can't afford, well that's the biggest restriction. Thanks for bringing up the latest gag in Misery though. I read this article and wrote a letter to my legislature asking them why bother when these unborn won't have affordable public education once born anyway. If kids can't go to school and parents have to work hard enough just to keep up, why should they be forced to have kids? It's like living in a shack and trying to have a pet when the pet needs a better environment and more care than what the poor man can afford to give.

When it comes to assault on men's health, nobody cares but when it's women, suddenly a big deal. Women have more access to health care, can dress as comfortably as they like, and can cover up with makeup. The health of men and women are both under attack. Maybe if the women teamed up with men, they wouldn't lose their abortion rights. Tell you what ladies. You let us guys dress without calling us gay and watch us fight for your rights to abortion, deal?

Would you have rather been aborted? NO? Then isn't it hypocritical to abort your own baby? Yes! Choose life in all things and live.

Being able to pay for the cost of legal abortion in the USA is a matter that is, ultimately, capable of being handled.

Providing abortion access to women residing in staunchly Pro-Life states is still doable, but with increased cost.

The critical issue being overlooked is the successful 2 decades of TERRORISM that has nearly crushed the choice of Obstetrics as a specialty among medical students. Many doctors have left the discipline, their costs of insurance being higher than all other specialties.

The punishment for murder of individual physicians who perform abortions was insufficient to the nature of the real crime, which was against the United States.

Currently, I am rereading Marion Woodman's, The Pregnant Virgin. I thought I'd add a quote from the book to the forum -- "In a technological civilization geared up for its own heady destruction, we are destined to become the victims of an outworn patriarchal consciousness so long as we collude in equating femininity with biological identity. That kind of consciousness is propelling not only individuals but the whole planet into an addiction to power and perfection which, viewed from the perspective of nature, can lead only to suicide. Feminine consciousness dare not be limited to unredeemed matter or unconscious mother. The realization that a neurosis has a creative purpose applies globally as well as personally, and surely, in an age addicted to power and the acquisition of material possessions, the creative purpose must have something to do with the one thing that can save us -- love for the earth, love for each other -- the wisdom of the Goddess. Responsibility belongs in the individual home, in the individual heart, in the energy that holds atoms together rather than blows them apart." -- Marion Woodman, 1985 (A Jungian analyst, with a Ph.D. -- and a strong feminist)

There is so much more I could say, but I am weary of having to repeat, again and again, that women, too, have choices -- and should be allowed to make whatever choices serve them best. The body, pregnant with the child, is a female body. Or, are some of you going to argue that fact? If a woman chooses to have an abortion, that is HER decision, the body is hers.

Already, women earn less money than men earn -- 70-76 cents, depending on the report or study -- often for performing the same jobs and tasks as men. Add another human being to that equation, and a woman can find herself living in abject poverty. There is no safety net in this country. The federal welfare system was dismantled in 1998, during the Clinton years. As Sioux Rose pointed out in her excellent response, states are broke, and don't have the money to help people -- men, women or children.

Why is it that when the financial crisis hit this country, Pfizer made a business decision to give men free Viagra, if the men could prove they had been on the drug for three months by prescription? At the time, I sent an e-mail to Pfizer asking if the company planned to give women free birth control, but I received NO answer.

Where is the balance -- between the masculine and the feminine?