The difference between abortion and Viagra...

Taken from http://www.mercurynews.com/ , notice the "victim" mentality at work;

WASHINGTON — As abortion took center stage in the Senate's historic debate over health care reform, Sen. Barbara Boxer was right in the middle of the fight, provocatively comparing an effort to limit women's access to abortion to restricting men's access to Viagra.

Her combative stance on the issue was a familiar one for the third-term Democrat, whose support of abortion rights has been central to her political career.

"Why are women being singled out here? It's so unfair," Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. "We don't tell men that if they want to ... buy insurance coverage through their pharmaceutical plan for Viagra that they can't do it."

Boxer was weighing in against an amendment offered by Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., that would greatly restrict abortion services for women buying individual insurance through a new health care insurance exchange. While the amendment was rejected in a 54-45 vote, it was not the last word on the issue.

Largely mirroring a provision passed by the House last month as part of its health care reform bill, Nelson's proposal would bar abortion coverage for anyone who receives taxpayer subsidies to buy health insurance. Those who pay for health insurance completely on their own would have to purchase a separate "rider" in order to have abortion services covered.

"This amendment would be the biggest rollback to a woman's right to choose in decades," Boxer declared Monday. "What have women done to deserve this?"

Supporters said the amendment was meant to preserve a long-standing prohibition against spending federal funds on abortion.

The abortion proposal has emerged as one of the main stumbling blocks to a final deal on sweeping health care reform, pitting a handful of anti-abortion Democratic senators against their pro-choice counterparts.

Nelson has signaled that he would vote against the entire health care bill if his abortion amendment failed. That would leave Democrats one vote short of the 60 they need to break a filibuster. Forging a compromise is tricky, given the firm moral beliefs on both sides of the debate.

Abortion was a central issue in Boxer's first race for the Senate in 1992, when she defeated anti-abortion Republican Bruce Herschensohn, and she has used it successfully to rally her female base and twice win re-election. Next year, Boxer is expected to face either former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina or state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore — who both oppose abortion — in her bid for a fourth term.

The difference between abortion and Viagra? Oh, I dunno. Maybe one of them outright kills an innocent life and the other doesn't. How is that for an answer?

That "little blue pill" can be instrumental in helping achieving martial bliss with the wifely one. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to fill in the blanks on that one.

And that happiness doesn't involve appeasing Moloch.

But if denying coverage of the middle-aged man's best friend is what it takes, then let's stop the payments for Viagra. The pills cost about ten bucks a pop if you don't use insurance. Roses, dinner and a chickflick will run a hell of a lot more when you're greasing the wheels of domestic bliss.

Or so I've been told.