Republicans don't disguise their indifference to human life

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Karol Cummins
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Republicans are on the cusp of revoking women’s rights to be free from compulsory pregnancy & childbirth, have given up the pretense of championing “human life.” We see more GOP callously express their indifference to life — especially women — after birth.

Opinion | Republicans don’t disguise their indifference to human life
Democrats should not shy from debate about saving lives
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9:24 AM · Dec 6, 2021

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Republicans, sensing that they are on the cusp of revoking women’s rights to be free from compulsory pregnancy and childbirth, have given up the pretense of championing “human life.” We see more Republicans callously express their indifference to life — especially women — after birth.
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On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jake Tapper questioned Anthony S. Fauci, the Biden administration’s chief medical adviser, and one of the scientists most critical to the discovery and treatment of HIV/AIDS, about accusations from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that Fauci “overhyped” AIDS and covid-19:

TAPPER: Obviously, that’s a bizarre and false assertion. President George W. Bush gave you the Presidential Medal of Freedom because of your leadership in the AIDS crisis.
But I did want to give you an opportunity to respond.

FAUCI: Jake, how do you respond to something as preposterous as that?

Overhyping AIDS? It's killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that? Overhyping COVID? It's already killed 780,000 Americans and over five million people worldwide.

So, I don't have any clue of what he's talking about.

TAPPER: I don’t think he does either.

But perhaps Johnson knows exactly what he is saying. The effort to downplay the consequences and seriousness of everything from the pandemic to the Jan. 6 insurrection has become part of the GOP’s gaslighting playbook. If the Jan. 6 riot — which resulted in 5 deaths and multiple serious injuries — was just “normal tourist visit” at the Capitol then the villains are the Democrats who want to investigate and punish those responsible. If the number of deaths from covid-19, as some false conspiracy theories posit, are not so significant then, once again, Democrats are the bad guys who are trying to force people to get vaccinations and wear masks. And of course, then Donald Trump is not responsible for the worst health crisis in the United States since the 1918 flu pandemic.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. I believe the GOP actually enjoys the suffering and death they inflict.

It turns them on and makes them feel all powerful.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

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[maxsolomon]

3. They don't have the intellectual ability to connect the two.

They are focused on the fetus; establishing the rights of the Unborn to birth. That's it.

Everything else is superfluous, and they won't hear it.