Abortion über alles

There has been a sustained Republican assault on reproductive health services, carried out with evangelical fervor. There is significant contradiction between the words, and legislative initiatives, of right-wing crusaders. Unborn babies continue to receive more attention than actual living and breathing babies.

An editorial piece in the NYT today highlights one aspect of this attack very clearly. "We're number one!" But not in any way that makes us proud of our achievements.



It's yet another statistic indicating that funding for healthcare services in this country is being driven by religious ideologues.

It seems everyday as if we must be at the breaking point. That Americans won't tolerate being scolded by the self-righteous among us, when making legal choices to manage our lives and the health and welfare of our families.

Single issue voters may not care about the fallout here, as there's nothing more important than saving the lives of the unborn. It's a bait and switch deal. Conservatives go to the polls with the false hope of overturning Roe, meanwhile stripping the rights of the living.

Make no mistake, healthcare for the living IS a right. For argument sake let's call it a privilege. The privileges of newborns are being systematically stripped. When is enough....enough already? The separation of church and state has evolved into an unholy union of god-fearing lawmakers and the factually challenged, blindly heeding the call to "save the babies".