Profiles in Callousness: Senators Feinstein, Boxer and Mikulski

On Monday, I blogged about two senators (one republican, one democrat) who reached across party lines in an attempt to remove abortion funding from the Senate health care bill (a move that the majority of Americans support, and a move which was defeated yesterday).

Today I have the regrettable task of talking about a triad of staunch pro-abortion democrats in the Senate: Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Barbara Mikulski.

What have they been contributing to the debate over abortion in healthcare? Absolute nonsense.

Senator Feinsten, when asked, said that it is "morally correct" to force taxpayers to fund abortions:

Senator Boxer, meanwhile, compared denying women abortion coverage to denying men Viagra. Seriously:

As abortion took center stage in the Senate's historic debate over health care reform, Sen. Barbara Boxer was right in the middle of the fight, comparing an effort to limit women's access to abortion to restricting men's access to Viagra.

Her combative stance on the issue was a familiar one for the third-term Democrat, whose support of abortion rights has been central to her political career.

"Why are women being singled out here? It's so unfair," Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. "We don't tell men that if they want to ... buy insurance coverage through their pharmaceutical plan for Viagra that they can't do it."

Senator Mikulski, finally, says that it's "morally wrong" to vote against the pro-abortion health care:

It boggles the mind. But it also makes a point: these Senators won't be convinced. They can only be defeated, politically, and that's up to us. Senators who argue that their pro-abortion position is the moral cause - let alone such stupidity as to setup a moral equivalency between abortion coverage and Viagra coverage - just need to go. 

And we can help make that happen.

These three Senators are all in the pocket of the pro-abortion lobby. It's their bread and butter. They actively fight for pro-abortion legislation. Sen. Mikulsi offered an amendment under which abortion could be treated as "preventative medicine." Senator Feinstein actively spoke against the abortion-neutral Nelson amendment. Senator Boxer, from private reports I've heard, was visibly beaming when the Nelson amendment failed. 

If she's happy, babies are dying. 

We can change this, too.