Today we are told that segregation of funding for abortion in health care is a good thing. But what it means is that more women and children will be imperiled by the violence of abortion. Segregation of funding for abortion undermines the needs of the women and their children. Masking problems that we have the opportunity to address is not an answer.
Having individual states opt out of abortion coverage is no answer, either. Is the violence of abortion less devastating to a woman in one state versus another? Why should a child be denied protection because his or her mother crosses some state boundary?
Serrin M. Foster, President, Feminists for Life - in a letter to FFL supporters addressing the funding of abortion in the Senate healthcare reform bill, which is scheduled to come to vote on Christmas Eve (December 24, 2009)
