It's awfully interesting how people have jumped on the Hyde Amendment
that says no taxpayer money can be used to fund abortions.

I totally understand the sentiment. Abortion is the least best course
for resolving a pregnancy but I also believe it's up to the mother to
determine the outcome of any pregnancy, not the government.

So, assuming that government shouldn't be using our tax dollars to
fund that which so many of us find abhorant and against our nature and
beliefs, why should we fund:

War that is not specifically in answer to a threat
State or federal executions

Thoughts?


BTW: The Stupak amendment goes much farther, insisting that any
PRIVATE insurance that is part of the insurance exchange, cannot offer
abortion coverage. That's not the public option but the exchange,
which is private but part of the collective that will be offered to
all, since it may be partially subsidized.

The funny part of this is that many private policies are presently
subsidized federally by taxpayer money but no one talks about the Hyde
Amendment with regards to those.