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OrlandoGator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:54 PM
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The most unfortunate irony of the Terri Schiavo case...
...is that the same Republicans who are crying their crocodile tears for this woman's "life" are the same people who just destroyed the bankruptcy protections for people who choose to care for (and pay the monumental medical bills for) loved ones on life support.

These people are "pro-birth," not "pro-life." Quality of life means nothing to them.
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:55 PM
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1. Amen fellow Orlandoan ! you hit the nail on the head nt
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Nashyra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:59 PM
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6. Stem cell research
How many of these people would support fetal stem cell research if it perhaps would provide some help with Terry Schiavo. Not one of them would, this is a question we should be asking the congress. Tom Delay, I can not say what I think his ultimate judgement should be, I only know that I would not want to be within miles of him when his number is up. Remember the giant sucking hole that happened to the bad guy in Ghost? Can you imagine the hole for Delay. Oh my
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:07 PM
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9. That very picture
has occured to me, more than once.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:19 PM
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13. Filled with cockroaches and flies for Bug Bomb Tom... nt
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:57 PM
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2. And shipping our young people off to fight an illegal war.
They don't value life at all.


BTW - Welcome to DU :hi:
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:58 PM
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3. They are pro-fetus. They don't want to pay for birth,
especially for poor people.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:59 PM
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4. These are also the same 'compassionate conservatives'
...who often are pro-death penalty for 'mentally retarded' and/or juvenile offenders.

... who think the credo "Nuke 'em all and let God sort 'em out" is humorous.

Culture of life, my ass. :mad:
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Donailin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:59 PM
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5. actaully I think there anti-sex rather than pro-birth
abstinenece, no gay marriage and no birth control or condoms
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TexasSissy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:01 PM
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7. That is soooooo true!
The same ones who want unwanted children to be born, but don't want the government to help defray the costs for poor people to raise children.

Sort of the Scarlet A syndrome.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:02 PM
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8. And to add further insult to that injury
these are also the same people who want to cut Medicaid. So there you are on life support, your family's gone broke paying for your care, there's no Medicaid, but the wingnuts run to court to force your family to keep you in your permanent vegetative state, and keep paying for it.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:11 PM
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10. and Medicaid pays for lots of hospise care--which the repugs cut
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:14 PM
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11. Exactly! Now we understand their Loopy Rhetoric!
They're against helping poor single women with children, like providing them with affordable housing, help with food, educational programs for the poor. And dare the poor abused woman that gets pregnant and can't afford the child financially, much less emotionally. She better have that baby, but no help from those making the decisions for her.

Hypocrisy at it's worse!

I believe RePuks want to rid the world of anyone not like them. Sounds like a horrible leader from Germany. :crazy:
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:16 PM
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12. You are so on point!
It's not even funny.

The right-wingers claim to be trying to save someone's life, but yet they don't want to provide universal health insurance, either!

That's amazing to me.
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OrlandoGator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:22 PM
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14. Kick.
:kick:
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