it seems as if in this country right now the
only people whose morality is really up for
debate debate
are individual women making health care decisions
about their own lives and their families lives
so the biggest debate about
killing about murder is individual mothers
and very little conversation about what's
happening in iraq in afghanistan in darfur in
terms of what is moral around decisions
about all human beings and what you see in
the supreme court some of the supreme court
cases we'll be talking about is this fetus
first women children and everybody else last
so that the only form of human life that
we're really talking about is fetal life and
i do think that's politically brilliant
deliberate
that fetal rights are being used to distract attention
from all the ways in which our government
is failing families so you create
this huge debate let's all fight about the
abortion ban in south dakota so you won't
notice the forty five million people who don't
have health insurance so you won't notice
that not a single state in this country requires
paid maternity or paternity leave so you won't notice
that your pension is being taken away and
that you can't support your family on a living
wage so i think it's part of a much larger
politic to 
get people to distract people
from the ways in which our government is taking
away support services and care for communities
and it is also used to create the illusion the
mythology of care see we care about life but
it's only unborn life
and then not really so because at the same
time they're passing things like the unborn
victims of violence act to protect the culture
of life
they're deregulating coal-burning power plants
that are pouring poisonous mercury into the environment
dangerous to pregnant women and fetuses
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