How Can You Be "Pro-Life" and Call for Draconian Cuts to Medicaid?

[Yavin4]

Isn't access to healthcare necessary to prolong life? What kind of life can you have if you cannot get treatment for ailments that kill you?

Poor pregnant women, children, the elderly rely on Medicaid in order to live, and if Ryan's cuts are passed into law, they may die. Isn't this rationing healthcare?

Doesn't life extends beyond conception and birth,

[CurtEastPoint]

1. not pro-life. Only pro-birth.

[Chorophyll]

2. How can you value "individual freedom" and be "pro-life?"

Another Republican conundrum. I do think the GOP attracts simplistic thinkers.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. There is the "consistent life ethic" supported by some. (But sadly, not enough.)

Also known in religious circles as the "seamless garment" theology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_life_ethic

It's an interesting philosophy, and a shame more haven't picked up on it. The fact that most anti-abortion advocates have married themselves to a political party that goes by ruthless--and I would say immoral--economic policies of the likes of Ayn Rand is a sad, sad phenomoenon and reflection on today's politics.

But here's the thing. The economic policy of the Republican party only supports the 1%. The Republican party would die a quick and rightful death if it only went on its economic policies. So it uses the hot button social issues to broaden its base, even though it means getting those people to vote against their best interests and common sense.

[jsr]

4. It's a genitalia-focused agenda

If it's outside, it's not a concern.

[Lucy Goosey]

5. Cuts to Medicaid only affect poor people...

...and poor people don't count as "life" to Republicans. I mean, obviously they chose to be poor, because in America everyone who works hard becomes a millionaire, right?

[PDJane]

6. The republican view of 'pro-life' is anything but pro-life.

It is viciously anti-woman, anti-child, pro-poverty, and greedy.

It talks about destruction of social programs, a lack of spending on infrastructure, and increases for the military. It talks about repeal of universal health care. It talks about torture and criminal punishment in sanitized terms.

It is, in fact, a view that celebrates viciousness and death.

[MANative]

7. "Pro-Life" is simply a meme and has no relationship at all to reality

It's a pretty way of packaging methods to control women and make them subservient and dependent. There are probably a small percentage of self-proclaimed Republicans who are religiously deluded enough to buy into the hype about life beginning at conception and who have been manipulated into voting for "pro-life" candidates. That myth, however, was not what motivated the pro-life movement. It was all about finding ways to get women out of the workforce and out of competition with men for the few "good" jobs left available when Repugs' financial strategies shipped most of the middle-class-building work out of the country. From the "leadership," it has nothing to do with life and everything to do with control.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I've come to the belief that....

.....the entire abortion debate is nothing but a meme and a means to sell bumper stickers. That's how sad it is.

[MANative]

9. Absolutely. And what proved it for me...

was all the hype during Shrub's campaign with no subsequent action by him or his R-controlled Congress and Senate. The states, however, are a different story, and are using grassroots efforts in electing "pro-life" candidates to manipulate budgets and spending (on everything from education - a BIG DAMN DEAL - and public servants of every stripe) at the local level.