Forcing Your Neighbor to Be Charitable
Rapid City’s most pro-abortion obstetrician is once again trying to read his moral compass upside-down.
Veterans of South Dakota’s abortion wars will recall that Dr. Marvin Buehner (who is perhaps the best doctor I or my family has ever had, having delivered both my children…before I knew he was an ardent supporter of abortion) has been the number one voice in the medical community in Rapid City–perhaps in the state of South Dakota–for keeping abortion as birth control legal in South Dakota.
Now the Rapid City Journal reports Dr. Buehner considers it an “embarrassment” that Americans do what Americans should do when people are in need: personally help one another.
For Dr. Marvin Buehner, the fact that people have to hold bake sales to assist families with medical bills should be an embarrassment to all Americans.
“We have to fix this problem,” Buehner said. “The system is designed to care for people who don’t need it.”
Such efforts by friends, family and neighbors is commendable, and in the best tradition of Americanism, and is perfectly harmonious with our form of government. Having bake sales and such is how Americans have helped one another since the earliest days of our society. How sad to refer to this hands-on compassion as “an embarrassment.”
Ironically, while his statement is a transparent call for socialized health care (i.e. government-forced “compassion” and wealth redistribution), Dr. Buehner is doing just what he should be doing in response to his concern for the needy…and pretty much the very thing he considers an embarrassment: he’s banding together with others in the community to meet the needs of the needy.
Buehner joined two other members of the South Dakotan Physicians for Health Care Reform on Tuesday to announce a free clinic that will be Saturday, Nov. 21, at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. The clinic will help the under-insured and un-insured in the area, while at the same time raising awareness about the need to pass national healthcare reform, he said.
The clinic will offer diabetes screening and education, depression and mental health screening, skin cancer screening, glaucoma and HIV testing and insurance consultations. It will be run by Buehner, as well as Drs. Robert Preston, Anne Fisher and Nancy Babbitt, also members of the Health Care Reform group.
This is exactly what concerned Americans should do when they see less-fortunate Americans with a genuine need that isn’t getting met: get involved and meet the need…themselves.
I applaud Dr. Buehner’s initiative to start this free clinic. But his and his comrade’s advocacy of socialized health care and government wealth redistribution is deplorable.
This type of socialist scheme is not the way charity has traditionally been handled in America since colonial days, and it is not authorized by the United States Constitution.
Dr. Buehner and his socialist associates need to stick with getting personally involved in helping the needy as their conscience dictates, and stop trying to leverage the strong arm of government force (contrary to the U.S. Constitution at that) to force his fellow Americans to be charitable.
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