Misogynist in Chief

That a man with a self-actualized wife and two pre-teen daughters could even consider this is perhaps the most disappointing thing I've learned about Barack Obama.

That he either thinks it will gain him votes from anyone or actually believes this is the right thing to do is downright terrifying.

Susie Madrak:

Picture this: You've recently been through exhausting rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, you've been puking your guts up and your doctor warns you this is a particularly malignant cancer.

Then you find out through some miracle (or bizarre irony) that you're pregnant.

Your doctor warns you the chemo and radiation has put the fetus at risk. She also says the pregnancy could make it harder to effectively treat the cancer. You have a hard decision ahead of you.

Hah hah, only kidding! That decision's already been made for you:

Women's health and rights advocacy groups responded immediately to yesterday's announcement that President Obama would exclude abortion coverage from the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (the temporary high-risk insurance pools created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to transition us into the new health care plan). Obama has decided that women in these pools simply don't need insurance coverage of abortion care even though there is nothing in the new law that dictates this. From the ACLU press release on this:

Even using their own private funds, individuals would not be able to buy policies that cover abortion in these pools. The only exemptions would reportedly be for women who have been raped, who are the victims of incest or who will likely die if they carry the pregnancy to term.

What is perhaps most perplexing about this is that this plan was created to offer temporary insurance coverage to those who cannot afford coverage due to particulary serious health conditions. Women with serious health conditions may be some of the most affected by a pregnancy - the pregnancy may not cause her death but is a woman's life of so little consequence that it matters not to President Obama if a pregnancy bears an immense burden on her already ill body? As NARAL Pro-Choice America's Nancy Keenan puts it, "This policy means that women who are part of these pools because they have significant health problems, such as diabetes or cancer, will not be able to access abortion care, even if their health is at further risk."

Read the whole thing.

No one is forcing Obama to do this. He's not getting anything - even the false promise of anything - from the anti-women forces who will keep sabotaging him at every opportunity. This decision gains him nothing - except the escalating enmity of the liberals who got him elected.