CNSNews.com has a chilling piece describing the destructive effect abortion has on the black community in this country.  Based on CDC numbers from 2005, the places that voluntarily provided abortion statistics by race to the CDC reported 203,991 black Americans were aborted.  In the same year, the total number of black Americans who died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes, homicide, and chronic respiratory disease was a combined 198,385.

If there is anything that can help put perspective on the whole health care debate, it should be this.  A few weeks ago we heard the outrage that up to 45,000 Americans die each year because of a lack of good health care options.  Now, putting aside that this number is probably bogus, let’s just grant it and agree that this is truly a tragedy.  It’s a tragedy if even just one person dies because of a lack of health care.

But, not every tragedy is a legislative crisis.  There are many smaller actions we could take in the shortterm while we spend the necessary time to work out the details of what will be a monster of a health care reform bill, the longterm implications of which are still largely unknown even by those who are drafting it.

For instance, let’s just flip the data around for a bit and look at what we are doing right in this country.  With 308,000,000 people in this country, 45,000 people is about .01%.  That means that we have a system where 99.99% of people are NOT dying from a lack of health care annually.  This hardly seems to be the type of legislative emergency that needs to be rushed through congress in the dead of the night on a partisan vote, without debate, and without at LEAST 72 hours for the American people to preview it.

Let’s look at another US statistic.  There are about 6.5 million pregnancies each year.  About 1.3 million of these are aborted.  That’s 20%.  20% of all unborn children in the US are killed by abortionists!  And what does congress plan to do about THIS crisis?  Well, fund it, of course, with tax dollars.  This, to them, is not a crisis at all,but something to be supported.

Again, I am not diminishing the unjust tragedy of 45,000 Americans falling through the cracks in our current heath care system.  And everyone agrees that we can do better than that if the number is true.  But, please don’t tell me that this is the most pressing issue facing this country when not only do we kill off 20% of our unborn population each year under the guise of ‘choice,’ but the supposed remedy to the health care crisis is to federally fund the abortion crisis.

The way I see it – if you save 45,000 while funding the the continued slaughter of 1.3 million, then your supposed health care reform is a net loss of American life.

- Patrick Looby