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sinkingfeeling

(57,563 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 10:03 AM Mar 2012

Where did this 'bit of wisdom' come from? [View all]

In Saturdays' paper there was this LTTE:

"Obamacare will be adding a $1 per month per person mandatory 'surcharge' to cover abortion. This is totally unacceptable! We do not approve of abortion, and it is in effect rewarding those with bad behavior, and punishing us with a tax.
Why should we have to be responsible for paying for abortions when pregnancy can be avoided, then those who do get pregnant are not responsible enough to step up and raise their child! It seems no one wants to accept responsibility anyomore for their actions."

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Springdale (Arkansas)


Notice how this $1 surcharge is stated as fact. And how providing for abortions is rewarding bad (sex!) behavior. Is this a theme in the Tea Party? Something this person read or heard on talk radio?

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