[Dean's World] Dave Price: Late-Term Abortion

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Posted by Dave Price:
Late-Term Abortion
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1201538543.shtml


   [1]The wages of socialism:

     Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients
     who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
     Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred
     from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most
     saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to
     everyone.

   This is the fundamental conflict between coercive equality (everyone
   must have access to the same health care) and personal freedom.
   The inevitable result of socialist health care is that there must be
   rationing, because you cannot provide unlimited health care with
   limited funds, and since there is rationing there must be rules for
   how rationing is done. They probably won't make eating a Big Mac a
   crime -- but they might refuse to treat you if you keep eating them,
   making the punishment a de facto death sentence.
   And we'll all be old someday.

References

   1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ERLAJ4UZBM0LLQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/27/nhs127.xml&posted=true&_requestid=596223