Mike Hudack is a tumblelog.

You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it?

Perhaps because the political process has found abortion to be somehow different from the death penalty, killing in war and other similar issues. Note that I say “killing” and not “murder”. There is a distinction, assuming that your war is morally just. Again, we have systems in place to make that determination.

Odds are that the restrictions on the funding of abortion won’t make it into the final bill. Rather than speaking of this as a fait accompli, why don’t you make some phone calls to your elected representatives to ensure a final bill that meets your moral standards, instead of someone else’s?