I know I speak for everyone when I thank the National Women's Law Center for injecting a note of levelheadedness into the health care debate. The pan of the abused elderly woman was a particularly subtle touch, though it was the body-length scar that really sold it for me.

But the shot of the woman looking at a pregnancy test was, I thought, confusing. When Obama says "reproductive care" it means exactly what you think it means, and it has since at least 2007. But dozens upon dozens of MSM fact checkers have established that ObamaCare won't cover abortions, so I'm not sure what it's doing in the ad:

In fairness, it counts as lying to quote The One on The One. So even though the Associated Press is now suggesting that ObamaCare might cover abortions, they could be making that up. No one - certainly not Congress - has really read the whole thing. Could go either way.

And not for nothing, but the good arguments implicit in the ad - apparently rape has been treated as a preexisting medical condition - are solved by health care reform that stops way short of the public option. You don't have to accept that interstate competition would fix things, though there's nothing like public shaming in an open market to motivate brand-conscious corporations. You just have to believe that passing a law saying "you can't treat rape as a preexisting condition, lest the government fine you into the ground" would prevent insurance companies from treating rape as a preexisting condition.

And then there's this shameless "deficit neutral" two-step:

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future -- period," President Obama told Congress in a health-care address last month. Well, that depends on what the meaning of "plan" is. Senate Democrats wanted to protect doctors from scheduled cuts in Medicare payments over the next 10 years, but there was a problem: Doing so would add a quarter of a trillion dollars to the federal deficit, making mincemeat of Obama's promise. So Democrats hatched a novel scheme: They would pass the legislation separately, so the $250 billion cost wouldn't be part of the main reform "plan," thereby allowing the president to claim that that bill wouldn't increase the deficit.

Whatever. I don't want to spoil anyone's weekend, but the right is going to get clobbered on ObamaCare. Elections, it turns out, matter.

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