Government Should Not Intrude on Private Family Matters

So said the President, with unintended irony today, celebrating(?) the 38th anniversary of Roe v Wade. As an aside, there have been few more poorly reasoned decisions in the last 100 years, than Roe v Wade? Even if one thought that abortion should be legal, the manner of deciding, by the Supreme Court inventing a right out of whole cloth, is preposterous, given the compelling state interest in protecting human life.

So the President doesn't believe that the government should interfere with "private family matters" except that his administration uses government dollars to pay doctors to talk to patients about end of life care. Further, the FDA is starting to scrutinize drugs based on their cost, like Avastin, even though it is not within their jurisdiction to consider cost. This is a blatant attempt to prevent doctors from prescribing drugs that are expensive by interfering with the doctor-patient relationship. And what about the family budgeting decision on whether or not to buy health care insurance in the first place. A young couple, starting a business, has to make tough decisions on how to spend the little money they have put together to get their enterprise off the ground. Now the government intrudes right into that discussion, demanding that they buy insurance, rather than making that decision for themselves.

If the President wasn't so hypocritical, I would have let the Roe v Wade date go by unmentioned. I disagree deeply, but it is not at the top of my list of priorities right now. But Obama's remarks are just too galling to pass by.