Stupak or Stupid?

I've been pretty caught up with spending time with my daughter and my new granddaughter, my son and my older granddaughter and grandson. I've not been so caught up that I haven't had time to be sick to my stomach over the latest version of the Health Care bill just voted through the House. How is it that deals can be made that would involve singling out a medical procedure that is legal in this country, and mark it as unfundable if one is enrolled in the "public option" health insurance or in an insurance company that is federally subsidized? For years, under the Bush administration, family planning money sent as foreign aid to developing countries couldn't be used to pay for abortions; for a time, federal money that went to family planning clinics required that abortion could not be offered as an option to someone with an unwanted pregnancy. Supposedly, the Bush era is over. To that, I say a big "HA!"

I see my 2 week old granddaughter, and I wonder if she will face an unwanted pregnancy, and have a safe, legal option to terminate that pregnancy. For the millions of uninsured women who might benefit from the current health insurance reform bill, many of them among the poorest in the country, would have to pay for a procedure which is available to those who can afford private insurance, i.e. the wealthier class of women. It was ever thus. So congratulations to the "progressive" Democrats who have once again sold women down the river in a massive misogynist, classist vote. The Stupak Amendment couldn't be stupider.