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Rhiannon12866

(205,074 posts)
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:45 PM Mar 2017

OK pro-lifers, since ACA repeal will kill tens of thousands can we count on you?

They call people like many of us pro-choice. But we are also pro-life. But I mean real pro-life. We want policies that maximize life. Those who wrap themselves in the pro-life mantra but sneer at our pro-choice stance should be joining those of us who want to preserve the ACA.

I find it very inconsistent that the mal-defined pro-lifers want to give an unlimited choice for individuals and families to choose any health insurance or none at all. Implicitly that means the choice to purchase junk insurance. It is clear that not buying insurance or those with lousy cheap insurance are signing a death sentence.

While mal-defined pro-lifers want to control individual women's birth control options under the pretext that a zygote, embryo, morula, or blastocyst is preeminent to the born itself, they give little consideration to their otherwise less than life supporting policy support. If the following is not the case for the mal-defined pro-lifer to remove their hypocritical aura, then that time will never come.

The numbers are out. Trumpcare will cause the deaths of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens:
"Repealing the Affordable Care Act without replacing it, as some conservative hardliners are demanding, would cost a minimum of 37,127 lives over the next two years (14,528 in 2018 and 22,599 in 2019), and perhaps as many as four times that number, according to scientific studies summarized in an editorial in this week’s American Journal of Public Health."

More: https://egbertowillies.com/2017/03/23/pro-lifers-since-aca-repeal-will-kills/

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OK pro-lifers, since ACA repeal will kill tens of thousands can we count on you? (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 OP
Yes Dan Mar 2017 #1
Unless sick people can crawl back into wombs... Cooley Hurd Mar 2017 #2
Exactly! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #3

Rhiannon12866

(205,074 posts)
3. Exactly!
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 06:34 AM
Mar 2017

What D. L. Hughley said one time on Bill Maher really stuck in my mind. He said that the RW has no more interest in protecting children - once they're born!

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