How Life is Valued in National Health Care legislation.

Anyone who is pro-life must know that all the current health care bills in Congress will allow taxpayer funded abortions. That is a fact that can't be denied. There have been amendments submitted to take this provision out of the health care bills, but these amendments were all voted down. There is no right to life for the unborn in national health care.

There are also provisions that will make life a "cost benefit commodity", especially for the very young and the old. While the bills don't say this specifically, the consequences of the implementation of the provisions will guarantee that medical care will be rationed, and, in some cases, denied. President Obama's key health care advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, is a proponent of the "complete lives" system. This system values stages of life differently and applies these values to decisions that should be made about health care given at different stages of life. The very young have less value because society has less invested in them. People over 65 have less value, because they now have less to contribute to society. These ideas may shock you, but they are in print authored by Dr. Emanuel!

How this legislation is implemented will be decided by the agendas of the people in authority. If those people don't value all life equally we can be sure of medical care being rationed or denied to those they value less.