Originally published at: Conservatives Notch 2 Victories in Their Fight to Deny Planned Parenthood Funding - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network of affiliated clinics that are the largest provider of reproductive health services in the U.S. One of these victories was a…
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It’s funny, I’ve never encountered another medical procedure which has been so vilified, delegitimized, and hounded as abortion. When the hell will these busybodies leave competent adults to make their own health care decisions? I expect it will be about the same time as we get national health insurance. I expect this to happen approximately never.
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Agree, it is not actual life they believe in, but only potential life, hypothetical and symbolic life which does not make demands of us and does not exercise its rights.
Life in the ideal, idyllic womb. Life before Original Sin.
Because if they were actually for life, they would support the provision of emergency care for women suffering from life-threatening problem pregnancies, instead of waiting for them to bleed out in near-death before their uninformed abortion bans permit life-saving treatment
Because if they were actually for life, they would support reform that brought health care to millions of Americans.
They would support contraceptives, prenatal care for poor mothers, and sex education for children— all of which would reduce the incidence of abortion, which they claim to oppose.
They would support stem cell research that has the potential to save countless lives.
They would support funding for education and training that could enable people to lead better lives.
They would support taking in refugees seeking asylum from violent and war-torn regions.
They would support sensible regulations to stem the epidemic of gun violence.
They would support a historic nuclear agreement crafted by the world’s powers designed to prevent a nuclear arms race in an already volatile Middle East.
They would oppose a politics that seeks to build a wall, and detention camps in the alligator-infested Everglades, and demonize immigrants seeking a better life.
They would oppose laws that sanction discrimination against sexual minorities.
And they would oppose an Orwellian “conscience clause” that uses the fiction of “religious freedom” to justify healthcare providers denying some people life saving health care or contraceptives and that encourages us to regard them as unworthy of equal protection under the law.
So, no, they do not “support life.”
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Please excuse my language in advance.
Shorter GOP, “Die Bitches, Die!”
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As a born-and-raised (now-former!) Catholic, I was surprised to learn—well into my adulthood—that the scenario you describe is NOT Catholic doctrine. (I have no clue about the various Protestant sects’ beliefs and am curious to learn about them.)
But (again, my understanding is that) Original Sin is conveyed at conception, thus there’s no such thing as…. 
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Transgender surgery?
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