LIBERADIO(!)

Ewwwwwwww.

Here’s a new one for the Urban Dictionary:

The Coburn: Invoking privilege or any other tool in your profession’s arsenal to protect your buddy from exposing additional hot and steamy details about his embarrassing extra-marital affair.

Freddie brought this Post Politics (not that one, the other one) “The Fix” chat to my attention this morning and my exasperated response was one he has heard frequently before, oh good night nurse.

I’m just speculating here but my guess is that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-NOT OK) is on the wrong side of most women’s health issues. You know, the kind of issues where certain decisions about a women’s health and reproductive health should be “cloaked by patient-doctor confidentiality.”

Oh yes. Here we go. These are Senator Coburn’s positions on issues that apply to the health and reproductive well-being of half the population:

1) He opposes abortion even in cases of rape. For instance, he voted no to an amendment to a bill that would “strike the provisions in the bill which would permit individual states to determine whether to use Medicaid funds to pay for abortions in cases of rape or incest.”
2) He sponsored a bill to limit access to RU-486.
3) He infamously said: “I favor the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life.”
4) He voted no on to “expand access to preventive health care services that reduce unintended pregnancy (including teen pregnancy), reduce the number of abortions, and improve access to women’s health care.”

So let’s recap.

Decisions made between a man and his doctor that would reveal torrid details about said man’s extra-marital affair should remain private but decisions made between a woman and her doctor about medically necessary reproductive health procedures should be open to any old white man sitting up in Congress?

Oh, I so do not think so.