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The Blog for Sunday, March 27, 2005

Culture of Hypocrisy

    Exposing GOoPer hipocrisy on the "culture of life" will be keeping th epundits busy for the next five minutes or so:
    In the past two weeks, President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Gov. Bush and every other politician draping himself or herself across Ms. Schiavo's body have cast themselves as defenders of the "culture of life." In too many cases, their understanding of that culture, as demonstrated by their other political actions, is so narrow as to nullify their claims to revere life.

    While they are vociferous on two or three issues — Terri Schiavo, abortion and perhaps stem-cell research — other issues of vital importance to life are ignored or denigrated by these supposed crusaders in the culture of life.

    Do they really think that if they pass misguided laws to require extraordinary medical care for Terri Schiavo, no one will notice their attempts to gut medical programs for the nation's needy? Medicaid, which provides for Terri Schiavo's care, is facing cuts from both Washington and Tallahassee.

    Do they think that if they pledge to overturn Roe vs. Wade, no one will notice their lack of concern for the well-being of children once born into this world? President Bush has proposed serious cuts in education programs. Gov. Bush and the Legislature made changes in KidCare, which provides health care to low-income children, that drove 100,000 children out of the program.

    If a politician is opposed to stem-cell research and equally opposed to a ban on assault weapons or mandatory safety devices on handguns, how pure is that commitment to life? The most obvious contradiction is that so many people who have cast themselves as central to the culture of life have played such central roles in the culture of war. The rush to prevent the removal of Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube is as hasty as the rush to a war of choice in Iraq.
    "One life to save, many to squander".

6:39 AM

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