The New York Times editorial board today calls out pro-life Democrats for holding up passage of ObamaCare. In so doing, the NYT’s editorial board show little to no understanding of the pro-life contingent’s principled stand in opposing ObamaCare.

The NYT helpfully states “[w]e are puzzled and dismayed that these legislators are willing to waste that opportunity [to insure 30 million more Americans] because they say the onerous anti-abortion provisions in the Senate’s bill are still not onerous enough.” Hey, NYT. If you truly believe that destroying even a single innocent unborn life is a grave moral evil, one for which you will endanger your immortal soul, isn’t the only acceptable position the pro-lifer’s current position? You may disagree with the representatives’ position, but to imply, as the NYT does, that the position is irrational is offensive. Do not pretend your opponent’s position is irrational simply because you disagree with it. That’s second-grader, cafeteria shouting match, “am not/are too” logic.

The NYT trots out other tired, old tropes in defense of its “any restriction on abortion is one too many” position. The NYT claims because women will have to purchase a rider with their own money, somehow the government is not subsidizing abortion. Guys, money is fungible. If the government gives ‘Puter $10 to buy a new GM Pelosimobile, ‘Puter now has $10 extra dollars to go buy hookers and blow. Thus, the government is indirectly funding ‘Puter’s hookers and blow habit. It’s the same with abortion coverage. Subsidizing health care generally frees up money for individuals to procure abortion coverage on the taxpayer dime. It’s as if the government were paying for abortions.

The NYT sums up its argument as follows: “Abortion is a legal and medically valid procedure that should be covered by insurance — without government interference.” ‘Puter agrees that abortion is a legal and medically valid procedure, no matter how much he may wish it otherwise. However, the NYT’s conclusion does not follow. Maureen Dowd can go get all the abortions you want on her own dime. The minute MoDo starts spending ‘Puter’s money on abortions is the minute ‘Puter gets to tell her to keep her knees together or pay for it her own danged self. The NYT is breezily conflating the right to an abortion with the right to have the government pay for your right to have an abortion.

There is a world of difference between the two. To be consistent, as ‘Puter has noted in the past, the NYT should support ‘Puter being able to force MoDo to buy him a brand spanking new varmint rifle (Howa Axiom Bolt Action Varminter in .22-250, with a 55 grain soft point ammo and Leupold 4.5-14×50 optics, in case any of ‘Puter’s fellow Gormogons is putting together a Christmas list) simply because ‘Puter has a Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. It’s the logical conclusion of the NYT’s argument. The existence of a right confers an additional right: the right to force others to fund your exercise of such right. And that’s a load of moose muffins.

The NYT will not be happy until Americans are forced to pay for abortion on demand. And with ObamaCare, the NYT may actually get what it wishes for.

Stand tall, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and nameless others. We’re all counting on you.

'Puter

Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.

’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.

The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.

His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.

He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.

Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.

‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.