So, the Army denies payment for an Everett, WA soldier's wife for an abortion. Supreme Court rules that's fine. Doubly f-cked.

So, let's first thank the Army Family, they sure know how to take care of their own. Why did she want the abortion? Two doctors diagnosed her foetus with a fatal congenital something- disease, defect, whatever. The Army would prefer for her to give birth to a sick child destined to die, a family enriching experience we all hope for when we decide to reproduce, right? Unless we opt not to have the baby.

Well I guess that kind of decision isn't ours to make. Certainly not in a country ruled by a vengeful, jealous God who sends earthquake and plague on his enemies, and inhabited by gorillas too stupid to plan their pregnancies anyhow. Just keep f-cking and let God sort it out, right? If He wants you to suffer He must have a good reason for it to just forget your arrogant free will and medical knowledge. Knowledge, that was the original sin, remember? So just shut up and have that birth defect.

The only fine point worth noting, of course, is that neither the Army nor the court told her not to have an abortion. It's just that they expect her to spend her own discretionary nickel- even though every nickel she has probably comes from the Army anyway- if she's out to flush a foetus. That's a neat dance, isn't it? And it actually offers the best solution to the whole dilemma. As we separate church and state, and the definition of the beginning of life is medically impossible to define in a clearcut manner, we separate abortion and state as well. You can have it but the state won't subsidize it or condone it. Let the free market decide! Too libertarian for the Values bunch, I know.