Government Shutdown May Center on Abortion



Obamacare has an option allowing those who sign up to have coverage for abortions. If others are opposed to abortion they can choose the no abortion option. For those in Congress who treat anti-abortion as a religion in its own right, this is unacceptable. They say they are willing to not approve a budget if this option remains. 

Readers know shutting down large parts of the government has never resulted in good results for the party blamed in the next election. This fact is of little interest to the anti-abortion religion. 

One would think that if "life" is important, accessible health care would also be important. That is not the logic of anti-abortion. Like Trump, it is about revenge. As commenters here on this blog have said many times, the intent of women who have abortions is to kill. Punishment of these women, and abortion providers, is the important issue. This publishment is all that fills the heads of those involved in anti-abortion. The lives lost due to unavailable or unaffordable medical care is not relevant.

The message is already arriving on the desks of Republicans in DC who are concerned about keeping the government open. It tells them, "Back home, you will lose if you vote to keep the government open and it includes keeping an option in Obamacare that funds abortions. We are watching you."

As state after state has made abortion more available, the tactics of anti-abortion has had to become even more inflexible. It has needed to draw more lines for politicians and in state laws in states where they still control the legislatures.

While some parts of government will remain open during a shutdown, parts of government that are very important will be shut down or operate with skeleton staff. While a shutting down these parts of government is stupid, it does draw attention to the various services we take for granted giving them more political support in the future. 

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