The Freedom of Choice act, a sweeping piece of abortion-on-demand legislation, would also force abortions upon hospitals, including the thousand or so Catholic-run ones.  Laura Ingraham talked about this on her radio show yesterday, and it was brought up that Catholics who would go through med school would also be forced to learn the process, something I gathered from the conversation was optional now.  That would prevent many Catholics from even entering the profession. 

In Austin, I remember a few years back when our big hospital that was used for all cases, no matter payment ability, was taken over by the St. David’s system for management.  The city was forced (not sure how — the details are fuzzy) to take back over a floor of the building to provide women’s services, including abortions and contraceptives, because the St. David’s system wouldn’t provide it.  My daughter was born in a St. David’s hospital, and it was a fantastic experience.  Half the hospitals in Austin, including one of the best NICU’s central Texas, are part of the St. David’s system and would likely close if this law was put into place.

With 78% of the recount done, Coleman still leads Franken by more than 200 votes.  However, more than 3000 ballot have been challenged, so it could be a case of an election board making the decision.  Ed over at Hot Air, who lives in Minnesota, believes the board members will be fair.  Let’s hope so.  Our wallets depend on it.

Laughable.  He can’t wait to spend, spend, spend, and blame it all on Bush.

Ugh.  This is NEVER going to end.  I look at my daughter, who’s two, and wonder what will happen when all this debt comes due when she’s my age. 

We had great plans for her, but I don’t want her to be one of those rich Americans who will be forced to pay 75% marginal rates because they need to be “patriotic” to help pay off the tens of trillions of dollars in debt, the cost of health care for the 95%, the federal 401k matching program, ”enhanced” Social Security (even though the new means test means she won’t benefit), the newly federalized K-16 school system, etc, etc, etc.

I could save TONS of money by letting her go to a vocational school to become a meagerly-paid something or other and let her live off the backs of others who foolishly went to a fantastic engineering school and make great money but end up meagerly-paid because the government confiscated it all.