The abortion debate has been raging for decades in the political arena, and christian conservatives have always tried to claim the moral highground by saying how concerned they are with protecting unborn fetuses. However, this week a bill passed in the house and the senate that extends health care coverage to children of lower-middle class families. And, of course, President Bush has promised to veto it.
Now, it seems to me that this is incredibly hypocritical. You're going to go on and on about how concerned you are with making sure these children are born, but once they are you don't think they should be able to receive medical care if they get sick? Or that their poor family should receive any kind of assistance to take care of these children they were forced to have just because it satisfied your so-called "moral" sensibilitieseven though they couldn't afford it?
I guess the neo-con's "culture of life" only includes people who haven't been born yet or who are in a brain-dead coma. The rest of the actual living, breathing human beings who make up the country's population don't matter apparently.
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