Thank You Letter to Anti-Choice & Anti-Reform Friends

by Thao Nguyen, Outreach Manager, National Women’s Law Center 

Dear Anti-Choice & Anti-Reform Friends,

Can I begin by thanking you for so often being the same people? It makes it so much easier to not have to read twice the number of inflammatory blog posts and articles on the internet. You have so conveniently gone from one bad argument to another, melding the anti-reform and anti-choice messages so seamlessly into one incoherent mistruth – it’s just made it really easy for me to keep up by not expecting your claims to be based on any facts. This has been an amazing time saver allowing me to spend more time on taxing projects like watching the previous seasons of Mad Men so that I can understand the hype and outbid all my competitors on Ebay.

This brings me to my next point – thank you for providing shallow and outrageous arguments why women’s health should be undermined in the current health care legislation. Since polling shows that Americans want medical professionals, not politicians, to decide what should be part of a health benefits package, it did make me wonder – will this finally throw a wrench in their grand scheme of playing politics with women’s health?

Of course you didn’t disappoint. Amidst all your abortion talk, it’s funny that you never remember to mention the fact that the Energy and Commerce bill includes an amendment that would bar the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. The Senate Finance Committee mark that was released today has a similar provision.

Instead, you continue to push including proposals in health reform that would threaten the 80% of private insurers that currently choose to pay for abortion care. So, actually your greater goal is to make women lose coverage that most of us already have – well, what can I say? Way to use the health bill you detest to your advantage. It’s a real moment of turning lemons into lemonade.

Though, from my professional communications standpoint, I have to tell you – being against government help to repair the broken health care system and for government on regulating a woman’s body, well that’s just confusing. I believe we call that in the political world flip flopping. In rest of the world, I believe its called hypocrisy.

Look, I don’t mean to hammer you on your efforts. You have saved me countless hours of fact checking and reading through nuanced arguments. So, I thought I should send a quick note to thank you for that.

All the best,

Thao

P.S. For all those who want to make sure that our anti-choice friends don’t take away the coverage women already have – take action today!

Cross-posted from NWLC’s blog.