Rosie O'Donnell: Money Better Spent on Abortion than Foster Care
Radio Equalizer heard this on Rosie O'Donnell's March 15 satellite radio show...
show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Minjk48Ivhw&feature=player_embedded
Transcript:
Unknown male: And then you have some, uh, you know, more conservative Democrats that are saying there's not strong enough language about abortion in it, saying, that, you know, it should be stronger language than you can't fund abortion with anything that comes through the healthcare bill.
O'Donnell: So you can't fund abortion with the healthcare bill
Janette Barber (producer): Church and state has really, really been separated.
O'Donnell: So sad, and it's so scary, but we can pay for all of the unwanted kids and the half-million of them in foster care. I'm for a woman's right to choose. I'm not so sure that I would be able to choose that, but I'm for a woman's right to choose.
Barber: That's what it's about. It's not about making anybody do something that they don't feel is morally right for them. It's about choice.
O'Donnell was saying public funding of abortion would eliminate the problem of unwanted children and public funding of foster care... that apparently we have our priorities backward.
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Actually Rose O'Donnell is saying the exact opposite of that.
She is saying that while we could afford to pay for all the unwanted children that would come about following an abortion ban that she does not want to interfere in a woman's right to chose.
What I heard was dismay and the statement that while she didn't think she would be able to have an abortion , she wouldn't force her opinion on anyone else because women have the right to make their own choices.
Isn't it funny how your agenda can color the inferences you make?