{"id":225,"date":"2009-12-24T22:41:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=225"},"modified":"2009-12-24T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T21:41:23","slug":"chuck-norris-on-why-obamacare-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/12\/24\/chuck-norris-on-why-obamacare-is-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Norris on why Obamacare is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know Chuck Norris: martial-arts-film-star-bloke-turned-right-wing-commentator-and-walking-internet-meme. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0Him. \u00a0Well, he&#8217;s identified exactly what&#8217;s wrong with Obamacare. \u00a0It might mean publicly funded terminations of pregnancy. \u00a0And\u00a0<a href=\"What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Imagine all the great souls who could have been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents had been as progressive as Washington's wise men and women! Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?\">imagine what state the world&#8217;d be in if the Virgin Mary had had an abortion<\/a>. \u00a0Go on. \u00a0Imagine it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A]s we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Imagine all the great souls who could have been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents had been as progressive as Washington&#8217;s wise men and women! Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I <em>know<\/em>. \u00a0It&#8217;s so obvious when put like that. \u00a0Obama is, quite literally, the Herod <em>d<\/em><em>e nos jours<\/em>. \u00a0Possibly.<\/p>\n<p>Bah humbug!<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know Chuck Norris: martial-arts-film-star-bloke-turned-right-wing-commentator-and-walking-internet-meme. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0Him. \u00a0Well, he&#8217;s identified exactly what&#8217;s wrong with Obamacare. \u00a0It might mean publicly funded terminations of pregnancy. \u00a0And\u00a0imagine what state the world&#8217;d be in if the Virgin Mary had had an abortion. \u00a0Go on. \u00a0Imagine it. [A]s we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/12\/24\/chuck-norris-on-why-obamacare-is-bad\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,963,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-curios","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}