From Wikipedia:

Forced conversion

A forced conversion is the religious conversion or acceptance of a philosophy against the will of the subject, often with the threatened consequence of earthly penalties or harm. These consequences range from job loss and social isolation to incarceration, torture or death.

Forced conversions have been common throughout history, usually as part of a political policy to consolidate power under a conqueror.  An expanding empire, an official religion, unity.  The Hasmoneans forced those they subjugated to convert to Judaism .  With the Muslims driven out of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella forced conversion onto the Jews and Muslims of their newly re-Christianized land, eventually giving the order in 1492 for those that did not convert to leave the country.  The task of keeping an eye on the converts to make sure they didn't relapse fell to one Torquemada, who was very good at his job and made the Spanish government very rich with confiscated property and the sale of Jews into slavery.

In the New World, the population pressed westward, and as it overcame the Native Americans, many thought the best approach would be assimilation.  Boarding schools were established, and throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s children spent years being indoctrinated into a new religion and culture, forbidden to practice their own.

What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.   Ecclesiastes 1:9, Douay-RheimsVersion

Nothing is new under the sun.  

The re-election of Obama solidifies Obamacare.  And within those thousands of pages is a mandate for the forced religious conversion of millions of people.  The Catholic Church is the most visible face of that forced conversion, but many others - Jews, Muslims, Evangelicals - are facing the same choice as others have faced in the centuries before.  Change your religion, or suffer the consequences.  It's an attempt at forced conversion no less than that imposed by Charlemagne, Ferdinand and Isabella, or the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.  Those who are so enthusiastic about making the Catholics abandon their principles, to place their eternal souls in jeopardy,  may not have inherited the physical lines of Ferdinand and Isabella, but they are heirs to their age-old philosophy.

Get out the duct tape!

Or maybe not.  The convoluted nonsense that passes as thought amongst pro-aborts doesn't really surprise anymore, so it's not really as necessary as it once was to have to apply emergency duct tape to prevent one's head from exploding. 

We established some time ago that whether or not a child is wanted is what determines whether what a woman is carrying in her womb is or is not human.  Warm fuzzy feeling = human.  Not warm fuzzy = not human.  Recently, it was made clear that the sex of the child carried is one of the sub-criteria that determines  humanity.  Such things would be laughable if the end result of this wasn't so disastrous for the child being chopped to pieces and sucked into the garbage.  After all, as a juror I would have to determine guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt in order to convict. No pro-abort can prove that what is being aborted is not a human being - and the conviction of not human carries the death penalty.   But it's real scary to not be a part of the "I'm scared to step out 'cause choice sounds so good" crowd, so many will still go galloping after deadly absurdity.  You don't need real facts in order to hold a position - just ask Al Gore.

But sometimes the mental twistedness of "choice" reaches new heights, as it did in Spain recently.   Try to kill a child, manage to NOT chop it into pieces and suck it out, child gets born, and now the abortionist gets socked with a lawsuit.   Poor guy.  He thought he killed the damned thing.  And there it is, somehow having morphed into a human being - the one who lived, er, got away.  And I assume that their socialized medicine will also pay for the mental health care the accidentally-alive child will need when they get old enough to find all this out.

The consequences of socialist medicine are rearing their ugly head in Spain. Spain recently fully legalized abortion in 2010 under a socialist government. Shortly thereafter, a Spanish woman, 7 weeks pregnant, decided to have a “vacuum aspiration” abortion, a surgical procedure where the baby is literally sucked up out of the womb into a jar. The procedure went well according to the surgeon, who even had the patient come back for a follow-up ultra-sound two weeks later and confirmed the “success” of the surgery.

Only one problem: the patient felt pregnancy symptoms 3 month later and was quite surprised to hear from her OBGYN that she was 5 months pregnant.

The extremely generous and competent abortion clinic decided to reimburse its patient for the failed surgery and graciously offered another abortion free of charge -- past the 22-week legal limit. The patient decided to keep the child instead, and sued the clinic.

This week, the Spanish legal system awarded the patient 150,000 Euros in moral damages, and sentenced the clinic to pay her a monthly 1,000 Euros child support for helping raise the child. Where is the father? Who knows? But, of course, the clinic is paid by the state, not by the patient. Welcome to the world of socialized, liberal medicine, where you – the taxpayer -- can now be forced to pay full alimony, not for a doctor killing a patient, but for failing to kill an unborn child.

 Um, would somebody please remind me why I'm an evil conservative because I oppose this? 

Heidi Huffman, a non human who is supposed to be dead

So THAT'S why someone else has to pay for it!

Poor Sandra Fluke.  Now it's clear why she needs someone else to pick up the tab for her birth control.  She doesn't have any money left over from vacation with her boyfriend!  Last year's trips included Barcelona, Spain:

...and Pompeii, Italy:

Poor dear. Such a tough life.  That mean old Catholic Church attacking her rights and everything.  It's clear she's suffering.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for this.  Take bets on whether the major media points it out?