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June 15, 2017 12:56 PM UTC

Rep. Doug Lamborn: "Abortion Is Not Health Care"

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R).

As the Denver Post’s Jesse Paul reports, Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs wants to make extra-super sure that the Senate’s forthcoming Obamacare repeal legislation doesn’t make anything easier on women who need abortions:

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, has penned a letter signed by 70 members of the U.S. House asking GOP leadership in the Senate to ensure “our pro-life priorities” are included in any health care legislation they draft to replace the Affordable Care Act.

“While there have been differences of opinion on the best way to fix our nation’s health care system,” the letter dated Wednesday says, “the pro-life majority in the House of Representatives has reached consensus that any health care legislation must abide by the overarching principle that abortion is not health care, and that therefore, elective abortion, abortion providers, and health plans that include elective abortion should not be subsidized.”

The request was addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, as well as the chairs of the Senate budget, health and finance committees. Colorado’s other House Republicans — U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman, Ken Buck and Scott Tipton — did not sign the letter.

Lamborn’s sweeping statement that “abortion is not health care” will come as news to the thousands of women in the United States every year who have medically necessary abortions, some of whose lives are saved via the procedure. And even in the case of abortions entirely for a woman’s personal reasons–how is that not “health care,” every bit as much as elective surgeries of all kinds and (yes) Viagra are “health care?” Perhaps vasectomies should be relegated to the back alley too?

Look, we get what Lamborn is trying to say here, but his choice of words betrays a fundamental ignorance about what he’s discussing. In Lamborn’s case that’s no accident, though it’s a useful window into the minds of dogmatic abortion rights opponents.

Minds that close in the presence of undesired context.

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13 thoughts on “Rep. Doug Lamborn: “Abortion Is Not Health Care”

  1. I think this is likely the problem he's throwing his crazy at.

    Senators are fretting that a provision in the House healthcare bill that bars financial assistance from being used to buy plans covering abortion will be stripped out under the Senate’s rules of reconciliation. Republicans hope to use that special budgetary procedure to bypass a Democratic filibuster.

    If the Senate parliamentarian rules that the abortion provision is out of bounds, Republicans could have a problem on their hands.

    1. Moderatus: were you born a doofus or did you acquire that quality in adulthood? Newsflash for you: a fetus is not a human being. Even arch-conservative Mississippi voted "personhood" down a few years ago by a 45-55% margin.

      1. And before it's a fetus, t's an embryo, and before that a zygote, and before that a fertilized egg. Moldy, what of biology do you not understand?

        1. Moddy's still trying to perfect the 'pre-fertilization' phase of reproduction in Grammy's basement. Give him time. We're pulling for the little guy (figuratively speaking).

    2. Maybe you should be campaigning against abortion in Macedonia first. Laws there are more stringent, but its available on request for the first ten weeks. 

    3. Of course it's not, . . . 

      . . . "healthcare" is what Lamborn, and his Republican ilk, are plotting behind closed doors now to take away from 23 million living human beings, obstensibly to fund their "tax-cut" largesse for the ultra-wealthy!

      1. GOP Congresscritters: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan". So they're keeping their plan. For themselves and their staff. Trumpcare is "for thee, but not for me."

        Congress is still waffling on whether or not they'll keep their own ACA provisions (like guaranteed affordable coverage for those with pre-existing conditions) and their free healthcare.

        It will be interesting to see which version of the mystery Senate AHCA bill  (exempt or included Congress)  makes it to the CBO for scoring. Will Trumpublicans still say, "Trumpcare for MY family???Are you f*ing crazy?"

      1. Moldy won't go there. It sounds too much like it’s connected to those complicated lady parts that got his friend, Todd Akins, in so much trouble.

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