Wingnut Pork Is Bad For Your Health

by digby

So much for evidence based medicine:

While the Senate toned down the House’s language on abortion restrictions, it may have ratcheted things up with another controversial reproductive-health issue: abstinence-only education. Sec. 2954 of the Senate health-reform bill, released Wednesday evening, restores funding for abstinence education.

It doesn’t matter if it works or not. There are social conservatives out there depending on taxpayers money to sell medical voodoo for profit. And anyway, this is just one small provision among many that have been put in to the health care reform bill to push some dollars toward completely useless procedures that religious zealots and forced pregnancy entrepreneurs insist upon.

But it could have been worse. As far as I can tell the faith healing provision isn’t in the Senate bill. Since Hatch was the one insisting that both abstinence-only education and prayer be covered as a health expense, maybe they got him to drop one of them.

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