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At least we can dump the pretense that the GOP is the pro-life party
By Jennifer Rubin, Opinion writer at the Washington Post
May 6, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. EDT
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/06/least-we-can-dump-pretense-gop-is-pro-life-party/%3foutputType=amp
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At least some Republicans are dropping the pretense they are pro-life. They seem to have backed away from their longtime assertion that all human life is sacred so sacred as to justify overriding the autonomy and health of women in the context of abortion. Frankly, they are revealing that they think human beings, post-birth, are expendable because of inconvenience (who wants to sit home?), personal liberty (stop telling me what to do!) and economics (we cannot afford the burden). Tuck those away for the next abortion discussion.
At any rate, the jig is up. The Daily Beast reports:
During a private call on Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott admitted that every scientific and medical report shows state reopenings ipso facto lead to an increase in novel coronavirus cases, even as he publicly announced plans that same week to end an executive stay-at-home order in the state.
So open very slowly, only when you have a massive testing and contact tracing infrastructure and are ready to reverse course if deaths increase? Nope, testing in Texas lags behind what scientists say is an acceptable level to test, track and isolate those who test positive. Abbott, a Republican, is throwing open the doors anyway, even as cases and deaths in his state rise. (Data from the Texas Department of Health Services shows that the number of new cases each day does not show a leveling-off. As of April 30, there were 1,033 new cases of COVID-19.) Abbott watches the death toll rise but doesnt take his foot off the gas. (Additionally, the COVID-19 death toll has risen steadily week-to-week in April. In the period from April 24 to April 30, 221 people died, making it the deadliest week since the tracking of data began.)
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applegrove
(118,021 posts)if they undo Obamacare/social security/coronavirus task force/ keep guns on the street/destroytheenvironment/etc. Because you just know they have data on who these people are who die and plug the data into their models.
Jeebo
(2,005 posts)Aren't these same people promoting "death panels" now? They were complaining then about health care legislation that would "throw Granny off the cliff" and now they're saying we have to accept awful levels of widespread death and suffering because "they're on their last legs anyway."
-- Ron
KWR65
(1,098 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)musclecar6
(1,681 posts)Have always been sanctimonious self righteous assholes of the highest order. All about them and fuck everyone else. Some are also guns and bibles idiots as well. Just like the Nazis human life means nothing to them. Phoniest bunch of jerkoffs that ever existed.
musclecar6
(1,681 posts)Wonder they all adore the Orange Lunatic ?