Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
Pro-choice voters have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already. Full Story »
Posted by Chris Finnie - via Markos Moulitsas, The NationReview
Never known for her demure style, Pollitt lets out all the stops on this one. It's a good expression of feminist rage.
…but those majorities would not be there, and Obama would not be in the White House, if not for prochoice women and men—their votes, talent, money, organizational capacity and shoe leather. We knocked ourselves out, and it wasn’t so that religious reactionaries like Stupak—who, as Jeff Sharlet writes in Salon, is a member of the Family, the secretive right-wing Christian-supremacist Congressional coven—would control both parties.
Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Why should Stupak and Pitt’s religion have anything to do with my health care choices?
Enough already. Prochoicers have been taking one for the team since 1976, when Congress passed the Hyde amendment, which Jimmy Carter would later defend with the immortal comment, “There are many things in life that are not fair.” Time for the theocrats and male chauvinists to give something up for the greater good—to say nothing of the twenty prochoicers, all men, who supported Stupak out of sheer careerism. After all, if it weren’t for prochoicers, there wouldn’t be much of a team for them to play on.
I’m sick of all of this. I want to buy into Medicare. End of conversation. It wouldn’t require a 4-year wait. It wouldn’t need thousands of pages of stupid laws. Just take my money and give me the same services I’ll get in another 5 years anyway. It’s so simple.
Chris posted this story.
Katha Pollitt speaks for me.