Do abortion-rights activists believe themselves?

[JBeukema]

Across the country, advocates for reproductive choice have been decrying what they call a "war on women." At the group's Power of Choice luncheon in San Francisco on Monday, NARAL president Nancy Keenan termed the current contention over abortion, contraception, and reproductive services "the fight of our lives. ... Republicans are not only going into the personal lives of women and families—they're overstepping into the private sector," she said.
From comments such as those, one might infer that NARAL opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare—which not only steps into the private sector but jumps up and down on it with hobnail boots. To the contrary: On the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare, NARAL's Blog for Choice lamented, "sadly, the very first thing the new anti-choice leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives did when it convened in January was vote to repeal the health-reform law entirely!"
This makes for some rather startling cognitive dissonance. Because if you're opposed to government interference, then ObamaCare is the last thing you should want. The law dictates who must buy health insurance (everyone), what "essential benefits" must be covered (regulators are working that out now), how much profit insurers may earn (85 cents of every premium dollar must go to reimbursements), what kinds of policies they may offer (no "mini-meds"), and so on. The law might not hand over ownership of hospitals and insurance companies to the government—but telling them what services to provide and what prices to charge amounts to almost the same thing.
Pro-choice activists contend a woman has the right to choose what to do with her own body and the government should not overrule her. This is a very appealing argument—and if you agree with it then it settles the abortion question (so long as you also agree that the fetus is part of the woman's body and not a distinct being with rights of its own).
But not many people agree with it. Not even many abortion-rights advocates agree with it.

Hinkle: Do abortion-rights activists believe themselves? | Richmond Times-Dispatch
http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/01/whose-body-is-it

 

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