Isn't this just great?

As if it wasn't bad enough that the government is selling healthcare reform up the river once again, that the public option is more or less a joke at this point and a single payer option is not a serious possiblity, now the right wing has attached 50 million bucks in abstinence only sex "education" funding. I could think of 50 million better ways to spend 50 million dollars except that I am too dang busy working myself to the bone to make ends meet and to keep my 10 underpaid, uninsured employees on the payroll.

If this idea ticks you off the way it really ticks me off, maybe you will take a moment to tell your respective U.S. Senators how you feel. I received this call to action today:

Ask your Senators to strip the Hatch Amendment from Health Care Reform. Don't let 12 Senators undermine sex education in the United States!

With the passage of the Hatch Amendment, it is more important than ever that we send a clear message to the United States Senate:

Abstinence-only-until-marriage programs were a dangerous experiment, teaching ignorance instead of education. Their time is finally past - and together, we will end these harmful programs.

And while you are at it, it might do you well to remind our Senators and Congress members that small business can't afford to float health-care reform (in spite of Wal-Mart's sudden support of the idea), that anything less than a single-payer option is really no option at all, and that until the Hippocratic oath is accessible to all residents of this country, we are seriously falling short of the nation's stated mission of a society of the people, by the people and for the people.