Overheard

Amanda from Pandagon (language warning): "In fact, it's somewhat tough to characterize abortion as a right when it's only your right if you've got a few hundred laying around to pay for one, and since 1976, women who qualify for Medicaid are basically (expletive) out of luck because Medicaid doesn't cover the costs of abortion."

In fact, it's somewhat tough to characterize the right to property as a right when it's only your right if you can afford a down payment and a mortgage.

In fact, it's somewhat tough to characterize the right for people to have sex as a right when the government won't give individuals unable to find someone to have sex with money for a prostitute.

How mangled does the concept of rights have to become for someone to think they don't really have a right to do something unless the government pays for it?