New Health Care Plan to restrict abortion. Religion sticking its nose in private matters..

The latest from Congress has the Health Care bill moving through the House with an amendment to prevent the use of funds to cover abortion services -- even when the woman is not using Government subsidies to pay for her insurance! If people believe abortion is against their religious views, that's fine. Don't have abortions. However, when you decide what my beliefs are for me, you've crossed the line.

Teach your own children about birth control, and they might not need abortions. This is going too far in controlling what people can do with their own bodies. A fertilized egg is not a person. It won't be a person for a long time. If you try to throw in the ridiculous belief that a "soul" is placed in the zygote by some fairy in the sky, you are really going beyond your beliefs and trampling my personal life and beliefs.

Now, for the spineless idiots elected as our leaders, how can you walk away from a core principle most were elected to support -- the respect for individual freedoms? The Health Care bill is bad enough, but now you have to gum it up with religious nonsense? It's amazing how people can take such a simple idea as universal health care and turn it into a universal goat rope! There are so many conditions, exceptions, and exclusions in the proposed plan that they make it even worse than what it is replacing. There is so much baggage attached that the cost of the program is going to skyrocket just to oversee all of the rules!

I believe that in today's world universal health care is an obligation any civilized society owes its citizens. We have moved beyond the premise that health care is an option. Just as we provide for the common defense, public education, and protection of free speech, we now much realize that universal health care is a necessary part of our society. Without adequate health care for all, we will have to deal with the many problems that result, draining our abilities to pursue the improvement of our lives and defend our freedoms.

At this point, it looks like the opponents of universal health care and health insurance reform are going to win. A bill with such a serious flaw as the abortion restrictions is not worth passing.