Republicans Became the Party of Death

After decades of putting on a "holier than thou" face with anti abortion in its platforms, the righteous mask of the Republican Party has come off. We now know it is a party that places a higher value on money than on adult human lives. It is a sin for poor women to seek abortion. It is Godly for a Republican majority to approve spreading a deadly disease among the public. While this fact has been reported reluctantly in the general press, it was finally featured in the New York Times.

Countless times in the past the Republican Party has supported policies that endanger human lives. It has always been in favor of bombing suspected hideouts. It supports highways for cars which are more dangerous than public transportation. It stops public healthcare for low income people which inevitably has to lead to more deaths. Now, it pushes to allow churches and businesses to open when the deadly virus is around us. But, it calls itself the party of "life."

All of this started a few decades back when Republicans made overtures to the religious right. It said, "Look, all you have to do is support lower corporate taxes and regulations and we will be anti abortion."  The religious right fell for it.

Now it is plain for all to see the Republican Party does not care about human lives at all, it only carries out its deal to oppose abortion. It wants deregulation everywhere but wants more regulation of abortion--part of the deal.

Reality is, the economy has to be opened up before all the threat is gone. And, women need the right to decide if they want to remain pregnant or not.