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It\’s amazing the lengths some politicians will go through in order to deceive the public and glossy things up to better than they are.  And this is true for both sides of the aisle.  In this particular case it\’s the Democrats, as pointed out by Ramesh Ponnuru:

Pro-choice lawmakers are trying to craft a compromise that would require insurance companies to pay for abortions out of premiums paid by patients, not out of tax dollars. Pro-choice Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., amended the House version of the legislation to state that abortion is not part of an \’essential benefits package\’ that all insurance plans must provide — meaning someone could offer a special \’pro-life health insurance\’ plan that doesn\’t cover abortions, even under the reforms.

Essentially we\’re all going to end up on the government option.  Liberals can try to claim otherwise but if this bill becomes law it\’ll happen.  I\’m sure my employer will drop insurance immediately and I\’ll get dumped on the government\’s shitty plan…apparently that\’s a choice, not sure how.   End result is I\’ll be paying premiums to the government plan without an option otherwise.

So how does a premium I have to pay differ from a tax??  Quite simply it doesn\’t.  Whether abortions are paid by premiums or by taxes, it\’s the same damn thing.  Different pocket, same set of pants.  And those pants are owned by someone that very well may have all sorts of objections, moral or otherwise, to abortion, much less paying for one.  Politicians can glossy this up all they want, it\’s still taxes being used to pay for abortions.