Friday, October 19, 2007

Culture War Causality

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Late Nite FDL: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on the “Culture of Life”:

"“Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.” (Rep. Barney Frank)

“Nnnnnggghhhh….” (Terri Schiavo)

Folks, it’s time we did away with one of the strangely persistent myths about the Republican Party. You know the one I’m talking about. Yes, that one, that Republicans are somehow the “pro-life” party. I guess they are, at least in the sense that they oppose a woman’s right to control her reproductive organs and of anyone’s right to die with dignity in the wake of brain-death, but in no other sense could Republican policies be construed to be”pro-life”, could they? Am I missing some big part of the Right that isn’t about killing people and blowing things up?"...

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