Pro-life Hypocrisy

The Republican party and its evangelical adherents like to identify themselves as pro-life. On Friday, September 3, 2021, Joy Reid takes aim at that identification and tears it to shreds.

“You can’t call yourself a pro-life party if your policy goals are to allow the maximum number of people to die of COVID, including children, by banning mask mandates in businesses and schools and raising doubts about vaccines,” she said.

“You can’t call yourself the pro-life, pro-family party if your policy goals are to put bounties on pregnant women and to force teenage girls to give birth after getting pregnant as a result of incest and rape,” Reid added.

“The Republican Party is a lot of things; anti-democracy, anti-voting, anti-history, anti-facts, deeply opposed to anti-racism. What they are not is pro-life,” she concluded, saying it’s now “loudly and proudly the pro-death party.”

 I think it's time to popularize the term, Pro-death Republicans.

Full transcript here.

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So, you can`t call yourself a pro-life party if your policy goals are to allow the maximum number of people to die of COVID, including children, by banning mask mandates in businesses and schools and raising doubts about vaccines, especially if your policy ideas bring death to your own stars and spokespeople and activists.

Republicans are America`s most unvaccinated and vaccine-resistant group. And they are driving COVID cases and deaths, including among their own children and other people`s children, and are largely responsible for the overwhelmed hospitals that we`re seeing today.

That`s not pro-family, and it`s definitely not pro-life. You can`t call yourself a pro-life, pro-family party if your policy goals are to put bounties on pregnant women and to force teenage girls to give birth after getting pregnant as a result of incest and rape.

That`s literally the plot of "The Handmaid`s Tale." But pro-life, it is not, especially if your other core policies are to oppose giving those children you demand to be born health care, if you oppose giving their parents a living wage, so they can afford to feed them, and you oppose funding free lunches at school if their parents can`t afford it.

You can`t call yourself pro-life if your policy goals are to allow polluters to despoil the Earth and wreck the environment, so that more people die as a result of increasingly violent storms and hurricanes and floods and wildfires. That`s literally a pro-death policy that includes being real cool with the death of the planet.

And if your voters overwhelmingly vote to reelect a president who was morally responsible, through his own inaction and lies, for the deaths of more than a half-a-million fellow Americans, and you`re still plotting to put him back in office and spreading dangerous lies about the election that the FBI says are fueling domestic terrorism, even after members of your dear leader`s cult stormed our Capitol, bringing treason flags and nooses and hunting lawmakers, including the 5-foot-tall woman speaker, while chanting "Hang Mike Pence," you are not pro-life.

If you continue to demand that more American troops keep dying in forever wars, so military contractors can keep raking in the dough, that is not pro-life.

The Republican Party has a lot of things, anti-democracy, anti-voting, anti-history, anti-facts, and deeply opposed to anti-racism. What they are not is pro-life.

Just asked Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi, who told supporters at a fund-raiser that Southerners` belief in eternal life makes them less scared of COVID.

OK, that is a demonstratively pro-death statement. And the Republican Party has now revealed itself to be loudly and proudly the pro-death party.