Have I accidentally been taking crazy pills?

Not sure what made this pop into my head the other day, but bear with my ponderings. With the Porkulus 1929 Resurrection Bill signed into law today, it also means that the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research is going to vacuum your hard-earned money into its gullet and dictate your health care.

Now, with that coming into being as of today, and considering Nancy Pelosi’s brilliant “just kill the babies to save money!” proposition (paging Dr. Evil!)…Let’s follow this stuff to its natural conclusion, even though it’ll probably sound like I’m inching toward the edge of the cliff here.

If a government body can and will dictate to your doctor and yourself what health care you will receive, who is to say that same body cannot or will not begin telling people how many children, if any, they’re allowed to have?

Who will stop them from making this decision based on irrational fears of climate change, based on race, based on sex, based on the parents’ levels of intelligence or income, or even based on their faith? What about the parents’ possibly passing on genetic predisposition to certain diseases, from cancer to depression to thyroid disease? From a financial perspective, which is the primary perspective this body will be using (save for the elites, of course), it especially makes sense to prevent the birth of children who are likely to cost the state even more money in the future. Hey, if Grandma isn’t going to get arthritis meds or dialysis, certainly you can let us kill your child…For the common good. Nothing personal.

Furthermore, what happens when the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, noting that your child, oh, has Down’s Syndrome or is blind or is going to dye their hair fuchsia and electric blue when they’re 17, tells your doctor that the pregnancy must be “terminated”? What happens if the parents refuse this “treatment” (indeed!)? It seems feasible to me that the state can then refuse any and all health care to the mother and her unborn child because she refuses to relieve the state of the “burden” of this child or any complications arising from the pregnancy.

Could the government, now that it is in charge of health care and has the right to tell you and your doctor what is and is not good for you, force you to use contraception or force sterilization? Force you to abort your unborn child, and refuse care if you resist? Why not? After all, “they” are paying for it, or are at least in charge of doling out the dollars for your care (your fellow citizens are paying for it against their will, which is immoral all by itself).

So are all of you Christians so gung-ho about “single-payer healthcare” now? Or are you happy that the government can either force contraception or infanticide on your fellow citizens, because you don’t want to hurt the polar bears, snail darters, and salt marsh mice?

Anyhow, just wondering. It seems to me that this would be the natural path of such a plan, eventually at least. I mean…Is there anything indicating that this wouldn’t happen?