"Bush told a crowd in Arizona today that the brain-damaged woman's case is 'complex' with 'serious issues.' But he says in a case like that, 'it is wise to always err on the side of life.'"
He also means:
Except when you don't have enough money to pay for yours or your child's life support.
Except when you are mentally ill and are sentenced to death or have even had evidence of innocence come forward, and you remain sentenced to death when George is governor.
Except when you die from mercury poisoning emitted by coal power plants (more to come in the West thanks to Clear Skies!) or get cancer, birth defects and possibly autism. To our current government and the EPA, these health costs are nothing compared to the costs industry would have to pay to clean up their mercury dumping. Just ask.
In essence, "life" for Republicans just means stem cells, fetuses and financially secure permanently brain-damaged individuals with ties to religious fundamentalists. They do not give these lives equal weight with other lives (unwanted children, at-risk and ill children, cancer sufferers, soldiers, Iraqis) they give them all their weight in activism, money and rhetoric.
And in the end, their pro-pollution governing still puts fetuses at much greater risk for birth defects...just don't abort.
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