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In these days of war and economic collapse it's easy to lose sight of what's really important: American Indians in the future getting abortions.
That's why the United States Senate is lucky to have farsighted men like Louisiana's David Vitter. To think about the long-range stuff. Not just what we can tell women to do with their bodies today, but what we can tell the women of tomorrow to do forever.
(Jesus, on the other hand, said "take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." Which is why you should never take investment advice from Jesus).
It's been thirty years since congress barred the use of federal money for abortions, and 25 years since the last American Indian woman had access to an abortion through a doctor provided by Indian Health Services. So you might think: Problem solved. Let's move on. And get drugs out of baseball.
But you'd be wrong.
You couldn't get an abortion, and you can't get an abortion, but what about the knocked-up Choctaw of 2250? Who's going to make sure they do the right thing?
David Vitter will. He just did. Tuesday. With an amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. And it passed, 52-42.
It's a proud day. Because American Indians have been getting a free ride for too long. Or, you know, they might, in one of an infinite number of improbable but none-the-less possible futures. If we didn't do something now.
Think of it like entitlement reform. Crossed with a Christian bookstore time travel adventure, where Planned Parenthood takes over, and sends killer robots to change the past.
Here's Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America, explaining why we needed a new law:
While this policy of not funding abortions through IHS has been in effect for 25 years, the Vitter amendment guarantees that future administrations don't circumvent Congress and change this policy.
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