Your tax dollars are working so hard.  Paying for your neighbor’s mortgage, paying for Goldman Sachs’ employees to make enormous bonuses thanks to their government bailout money being laundered through AIG (courtesy of all the Goldman Sachs alumni in the Obama administration).

Now, if Senate Democrats have their way, regardless your opinion of the procedure, you’ll be paying for your neighbor’s abortion(s), too.

Last week, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, chairing the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s efforts to draft health care legislation, added an amendment that mandates organizations like Planned Parenthood be included as “essential community providers” of women’s health care in the state and federal partnership “gateways” (basically the federally-subsidized insurance plan).

She tried to cover it with the usual legal vagueness.  But her intentions were caught and it was apparently Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) who called her out on it.  Even Senator Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pennsylvania) objected, but Mikulski refused to even consider adding language that plainly states, “Not including abortion services.”  So if anyone making up to $88,000/year wants free health insurance and an abortion, the rest of us will pick up the tab.

Senator Mikulski’s amendment passed.

This week, Senator Hatch introduced an amendment that would prohibit any funding of abortion through federally- funded health insurance programs except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother.

Senator Hatch’s amendment was defeated.