Conservatives are anti-abortion, avowedly because of their aversion to a "murder of innocents." Today's passage in the House of Representatives of a hideously cruel health care bill demonstrates that the assumption of innocence ends at birth.
Republicans have claimed (Really, they have! Look it up!) that people with pre-existing conditions have made poor decisions about their health and deserve to pay for their own mistakes, without help from the healthy, who, without exception, are healthy because they are virtuous; not one of them is just lucky.
Infants born with birth defects are apparently to be punished for some sin of their parents, down to the umpteenth generation. Now, let's ask ourselves what sin a parent might have committed to merit their infant child's suffering. The only direct error I can imagine is that of parents who, during prenatal care, have discovered that their child will be born with a debilitating condition, yet feel for religious reasons that they must allow the child to be born.
Well, nobody can accuse conservatives of consistency, except perhaps in their desire to punish.
I have begun to suspect that the aim of the so-called pro-life movement is to make sure that no unlucky child be allowed to escape his or her miserable life.
