By MATTHEW HOLT
It’s a very unhappy day for America. Roughly 30% of our nation is a part of a quasi-religious cult. On the whole these folks reject science and the enlightenment. This week the Jan sixth committee has proven they’re ready to make use of and help any instruments or techniques–as much as and together with the overthrow of the federal government, in an effort to get what they need.
The overturning of Roe vs Wade is probably the most seen artifact of a 40-year marketing campaign. The marketing campaign was funded by enterprise leaders just like the Koch brothers who wish to revoke all environmental, labor and rational restrictions on their actions. Utilizing darkish cash and the fervour of spiritual zealots who wish to management ladies’s our bodies and discriminate towards anyone who doesn’t consider what they consider, they’ve turned this nation again to the 18th century, utilizing the Supreme Court docket as their car.
The most important of these dominos has now fallen and ladies’s proper to regulate their very own our bodies have been taken away in most states. We will assume a nationwide ban (corresponding to occurred in Poland) will probably be coming right here quickly, possibly as quickly as 2025 if the Republicans win the 2024 elections. And observe that the rolling coup described by the witnesses on the Jan 6 hearings present that the Republicans are already blatantly taking up the supposedly impartial election course of.
However the American health-care system is just not innocent. Abortion and different reproductive well being providers are clearly a part of well being care. But uniquely on this nation the availability of the providers has not been from mainstream well being care establishments. The leaders of our well being care organizations, particularly our main hospital programs, have fully prevented delivering these providers. They’ve been very happy to permit Deliberate Parenthood and different specialist organizations to offer reproductive care, and have simply seemed the opposite approach within the debate.
Worse, lots of our religiously affiliated establishments, notably these with a Catholic heritage which signify an infinite quantity of hospitals on this nation, have banned not solely abortion however many different types of reproductive well being care corresponding to feminine sterilization. The Hyde Modification, paradoxically named after non secular bigot who was an appalling adulterer and hypocrite in addition, bans Federal funding for abortions. That signifies that personal Medicaid plans which now cowl most births on this nation have by no means provided a full suite of reproductive well being care.
Even in current weeks when the destiny of Roe turned clear I’ve heard nothing from main leaders of hospital programs or well being plans about this. A few of the newer supplier organizations specializing in ladies, corresponding to Maven and Tia, have been outspoken, as have many non well being care-related employers. However the common silence all main well being care organizations in America on this subject has been deafening.
At present there may be loads of disgrace and blame to go round.
