T. R. Reid: no-brainer: hate abortion? Support Universal Health Care.

T.R. Reid, author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, writing in the Wa. Post:  

  When I studied health-care systems overseas in research for a book, I asked health ministers, doctors, economists and others in all the rich countries why their nations decided to provide health care for everybody. The answers were medical (universal care saves lives), economic (universal care is cheaper), political (the voters like it), religious (it's what Christ commanded) and moral (it's the right thing to do). And in every country, people told me that universal health-care coverage is desirable because it reduces the rate of abortion.
  It's only in the United States that opponents of abortion are fighting against expanded health-care coverage -- a policy step that has been proved around the world to limit abortions.