So an Abortion limiting bill passed in my state, Texas

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Screamapillar said:

Mr Khan said:
The 20 weeks thing is neither here nor there. What it affects is in these onerous requirements shutting down clinics that a lot of women use for a broad array of health services.

It so often seems like prenatal life is the only life the pro-lifers give a damn about, given their opposition to funding for any health services for the living.

Is it right for us to be taxed to pay for others' health services?  I would say it is not. 

I wouldn't even be opposed to states running these so-called health clinics.  Although we know that they are by and large abortion clinics.  I just don't think the federal government has any business getting involved and taking care of people in this way.

If we as a society decide that we want state-run health clinics, then so be it (even though I personally don't see why I should be taxed to pay for it if I or my family doesn't use it), but it should be done on a state level, not on a federal level.  Let the states deal with their health services as they choose, and let the pro-life states limit abortion services, and the free-wheeling liberal states have as many abortions as they want. 

What's wrong with us all chipping in some money/ taxes to have socialised healthcare? Because of the inequality caused by capitalism, we NEED socialised healthcare. It is actually better as the health of the poor is much improved and surely if we are all healthier, the economy will benefit from fewer sick days.

I think your opinion is very backward and actually quite selfish, for just one major reason. Just look at the current American healthcare system, 35 million people have no health insurance and therefore "can't afford to get ill" because it is dominated by private companies who only care about profit rather than people's health. The profit motive has no place in healthcare. Fortunately, a disease can't tell the difference between a rich and a poor person and so infects anyone. Are you telling you would yet someone who can't afford to pay potentially die unneccesarilly despite all the medicine that exists? That's just wrong. And to prove further that private healthcare isn't efficient, 18% of US GDP is spent on healthcare. Come to the UK, where we have the NHS and we only spend 9% of GDP on healthcare according to World Bank (that % is similar across other countries with socialised healthcare). It's cheaper to have socialised healthcare and it is also moral, everyone just needs to dip into too their pocket for the greater good. And to think you get a free and decent service in return for slightly higher taxes. I don't see the problem here.