NEWJERSEY: Murphy spends tax money to subsidize or incentivize abortionists

Sunday, March 9, 2025

https://www.newsmax.com/us/incentive-budget-abortion/2025/02/28/id/1200846/

N.J. Gov. Seeks to Draw Abortionists to Garden State
By Nicole Weatherholtz | Friday, 28 February 2025 10:27 AM EST

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has included a $2 million incentive program in his new budget proposal to draw “reproductive healthcare providers” to the Garden State, according to Catholic News Agency.

Murphy’s remarks on the 2026 budget indicate the initiative was designed to appeal to abortion providers in pro-life states, saying the program would bring reproductive healthcare providers to New Jersey who have been “targeted by politicians elsewhere.”

“I will certainly never back down from defending women — and protecting their access to reproductive healthcare and, especially, their right to an abortion,” Murphy said on Tuesday. “Those folks in Washington can try and push their anti-choice agenda on us. But as long as I am governor, they will fail.”

With the 2026 budget, the governor declared that his administration was “going to make the largest investment into protecting reproductive rights in our state’s history by fully funding women’s healthcare.”

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As pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian I don’t understand why the Taxpayers of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee have to subsidize or incentivize that Phil Murphy calls “reproductive healthcare providers”.

There is a lot of emotion in this issue and personally I believe that “abortion” is a tricky topic.

Up to a certain point, the Gooferment should have no role in what should be a terrible decision that has to be made by a woman.  Perhaps guided by her doctor, her family, and her Church, she should be free to chose what she sees as “best”.  

At some point, the child gets the rights of a human being.  I don’t know what that point is: conception, 3 months, viability outside of the womb, 6 months, at birth, at some number of days after birth, when they can assert their rights, at 18, at 21.  As I said, I don’t know.

But I do know, that the Gooferment should not add to the fury.  “It’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing.”  Using Taxpayer money to attract more killing of human beings seems like a failure to understand the basic role of Gooferment: “Protect its citizens!”

No mater what age they are. 

It’s a topic best left to the people.  If Murphy wants, then let him pay out of his pocket; not mine.  Or start a GOFUNDME!

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INTERESTING: Here’s a factoid that must have some rational explanation?

Thursday, January 23, 2025
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/mortality-death-birthday/2024/04/12/id/1160815/
 
Why You Are More Likely to Die on Your Birthday
By Lynn C. Allison | Friday, 12 April 2024 05:12 PM EDT 
 
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The most common theory behind the birthday and death association is that a little too much celebrating may be going on that involves alcohol, says The Guardian. There is also the possibility that terminally ill people view birthdays as survival milestones and tend to pass on the day on either side of it.
 
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Laugh! 
 
Some things are just inexplicable.
 
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“What you do on your birthday you do all year long.”  — Anonymous old proverb
 
Never figured out what that meant.  Does it mean, literally, what ever you do on your birthday, you’ll repeat it over and over again like the movie “Groundhog’s Day”.  Or, maybe that your attitude on your birthday, will carry on through the year.  Or something else.
 
For me, that annual day of introspection leads me to think of the things I wanna change.  Life choices?
 
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HEALTHCARE: UK has 13% of its entire population on the NHS “waiting list”

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

https://www.newsmax.com/sallypipes/nhs-starmer-sanders/2024/07/17/id/1172934/

OPINION

U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
By Sally Pipes Wednesday, 17 July 2024 02:43 PM EDT

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Last year, an average of 268 British patients died each week as a result of hospital admission delays in the nation’s emergency rooms, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

In England, the number of patients awaiting treatment referrals rose to 7.6 million as of the end of April.

That’s roughly 13% of its entire population.

There’s no shortage of lamentation from British officials about the rising death tolls and growing wait lists endemic to the NHS.

Britain’s new Health Secretary, the Labour Party’s Wes Streeting, even made headlines this week by declaring that “From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken.”

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All of this tumult in Britain should give Americans pause the next time leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., celebrate the virtues of government-dominated health care.

Just last year, Sanders implored Britons: “Do not look at the American model. Please do not. Build on what you have, improve what you have.”

Britain has tried that for decades, with only worsening results.

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American observers take note: Socialized medicine is no dream. It’s a nightmare — and one from which Britain has been unable to awake.

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Hard to imagine that people aren’t dying while waiting for treatment.  Seems like “socialized medicine” always has this problem.

Not withstanding Senator Sanders advice, I’d suggest privatizing the whole mess.  Real Privatization.

Not like Medicaid, not like Medicare, not like the Veterans Administration healthcare, or not like the Indian Healthcare system.

Go back to the early insurance model, where the recipient must pay and be reimbursed.  If they are poor, then the Gooferment can “insure” them but they only pay a small percentage.  Same for catastrophic health expenses, pay a percentage.  No need for medical bill bankruptcy.  

By everyone paying something, I bet enough fraud would be eliminated to pay for the whole thing.  (I remember that ½ of all Medicare expense in South Florida was fraudulent.  By having a percentage to pay, we can turn all the senior citizens into medical auditors.  Ever seen old folks splitting a check at an early bird dinner?)

If you thing the US system is “bad”, then look into the UK’s NHS and its problems.

Argh!

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