If you're pro-life, you should want the healthcare bill to pass

Although I'm pro-choice, we all want there to be fewer abortions in the United States. T.R. Reid, a great news reporter on healthcare issues throughout the world has a must-read article on expanded healthcare coverage's affect on the abortion rate in rich, modern democracies like ours in The Washington Post.  Key passage:

In Britain, only 8 percent of the population is Catholic (compared with 25 percent in the United States). Abortion there is legal. Abortion is free. And yet British women have fewer abortions than Americans do. I asked Cardinal Hume why that is.

The cardinal said that there were several reasons but that one important explanation was Britain's universal health-care system. "If that frightened, unemployed 19-year-old knows that she and her child will have access to medical care whenever it's needed," Hume explained, "she's more likely to carry the baby to term. Isn't it obvious?"