Warning: Health Care Reform Should Not Be the Circus Anti-Choice Extremists Are Trying to Turn it Into

Sorted under anti-choice extremism, health on September 18, 2009

During a health care rally at the University of Maryland, a man took it upon himself to interrupt the president while he was attempting to speak to the crowd about health care reform and shout “Obama you’re a liar. Obama, your health care kills children. Abortion is murder.”

Every day there are around five stories like this–People heckling politicians who are trying to facilitate real and genuine conversations about a topic that a lot of people still don’t know about or understand the specifics of and completely throwing the entire event off course and stealing the time away from people who go to these rallies to learn, to engage in respectful (to the facilitator as well as their fellow rally-goers) conversation and who support the right for every American citizen to obtain adequate health care. As I’ve already stated, the right has an agenda and that is to interject themselves into each and every health care reform discussion and spread the delusion that all health care reform will do is create “death panels” and set out to kill your grandmother and force every tax-paying citizen to pay for the abortions of every fertile woman in the country. These ideas, of course, as completely blown out of proportion, especially considering that in case anyone wasn’t adequately educated about the history of reproductive rights, abortion is legal. You know, just in case the people on the right who feel it is their duty to crash health care rallies didn’t know or forgot this fact.

Health care reform is not something to be taken lightly. It is not the circus that the right is determined to turn it into. Health care reform would save people’s lives and it would greatly improve the lives of those citizens who are currently plagued by illness and by pain every day of their lives. Health care reform is about people, not about your fucking political agenda or the twisted delusions that you’re being fed by those who see no need for health care reform because they already have access to health care.



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  • I remember there always would be at least one guy who could say something dumb like this at presentations.
  • Dan
    I agree that heckling is a low form of voicing your opinion, but if im not mistaken, the crowd seemed to be cheering for the heckler?
  • at least, we started to move- as before everyone talked about this- but do nothing-hoping for the best
  • hehe he is a strange man
    thanx for the post
  • In my point of view its really very important that Health care reform is not something to be taken lightly
  • Very good post and video but I dislike this guy. Interrupting the president to state his opinion. We all have opinions and there are better ways of expressing them.
  • Great post.Thanks for sharing this to us.
  • CrissWrites
    What does this guy care? He's never going to need an abortion. So why is he worried about it?
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