Video: Bachmann warns Obama reforms would increase abortion ‘hassle factor’
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 10:51 am
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Whether you’re for or against abortion rights, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has a reason you should oppose healthcare reform. Pro-lifers can fear it will mandate construction of abortion clinics across America. Pro-choicers should worry that ”when it comes to that decision about an abortion, you’ve got 33 new bureaucracies now that are created,” Bachmann said on the House floor last night after President Obama’s televised healthcare remarks. She went on to warn that the “hassle factor” women would face would rival a visit to the DMV or WWII veterans’ efforts to get medals.
Here’s the video and a transcription:
On this issue of women making a decision about whether or not to have an abortion, one of the main arguments that was proffered was, No government should get between a woman and her doctor. The government should not get between the woman and her doctor when she comes to making that decision.
Yet it’s so curious. When you look at these 33 new bureaucracies that are created, when it comes to that decision about an abortion, you’ve got 33 new bureaucracies now that are created. I recognize those who are here are probably pro-life in this Chamber. But for those women who aren’t pro-life, that’s something that they need to consider very seriously. The government is going to be between them and their doctor in a whole new way, a big way, a 33-bureaucracy way. That’s one thing women understand. Women consume health care. They purchase most of the health care in this country. They take care of their elderly parents. And women will be the ones that are stuck filling out the paperwork, making call after call after that call.
We all know what it’s like if you call the Department of Motor Vehicles and you have a problem, or you call some other government department if you have a problem. You know what you have to go through. We still have gentlemen who have served valiantly in World War II who still can’t get medals. They’re still trying to get through to get access.
Now we’re looking at women having the hassle factor of having to get through to a bureaucrat.
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Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
Michele Bachmann is trying to mislead the American people.
The CBO report says that health care reform will add to the deficit IF TAXES AREN’T RAISED.
But the Democratic House bill for health care reform raises taxes on the rich to pay for its costs.
Comment posted August 8, 2009 @ 9:57 am
Eric Jaffa,
you twit there aren’t enough “rich” people to go around
Comment posted August 21, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
What’s that, Stu? I thought the Bush boom created more millionaires than any era in American history. There are apparently 9 million millionaires in the US, with 500K created in the last 5 years alone in the real estate bubble. There are plenty of rich people just waiting to have their taxes raised back to Clinton or Reagan-era levels.
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