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I'll Pay for Abortions, But Here's What I Won't Pay For

Today, President Obama signed an executive order that keeps the existing limits in place regarding federal funding for abortion. As it stands, abortions can be federally funded if the mother's life is in danger or it's a case of rape or incest, but that's it. Agreeing to this helped get the Healthcare reform bill passed, because Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan basically blackmailed the Administration by refusing to vote Healthcare through unless these limits were upheld.

Apparently, Stupak doesn't feel like paying for abortions. Well, that's funny. I didn't realize we had a choice when it came to what our taxes can pay for, but I guess I was wrong.

In that case, here are a few things I don't want to pay for:

- I don't want to pay for my unemployed neighbor to sit at home and do nothing while claiming he's incapable of working. If the man can mow his lawn and swim in his pool every day in the summer, I'm sure he can find a job.

- I don't want any of my tax money going towards or for any religious organization. That means that state schools that have chapels on them? Get rid of them. Unless of course there's some great delegating system that makes sure only the Catholics' money goes to the Catholics, but something tells me that's not how it works.

- I don't want to pay for gastric bypass surgeries. I don't want to pay for emphysema patients. I don't want to pay for drunk people who saw off their hand and then need emergency room treatment. Mr. Stupak has shown me that other people's problems are their problems, and not yours. So I guess I can forget about my compassion and just pay for medicine for people who've never made mistakes, not like terrified fifteen-year-old girls who maybe had sex too early and would get thrown out of their house if their parents found out they were pregnant? Yeah, I'm only going to help out the saints from now on.

Wow, thank you, Stupak.

Thanks to you, it looks like I'm going to be saving an awful lot of money.

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