Yet Another Reason

to be glad we don't have government health care, or live in England. The latest excuse for denying care to an elderly patient? He's pro-life.

Edward Atkinson, a 75-year-old anti-abortion activist, was jailed recently for 28 days for sending photographs of aborted foetuses to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. That draconian sentence was not deemed punishment enough: the hospital has banned Mr Atkinson from receiving the hip replacement operation he was expecting.

We're apparently supposed to believe that doctors and nurses in England can't stand the sight of blood. How confidence-inspiring.