Why Do Republicans Only Care About Saving Fetuses?

On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a high-rolling casino gambler, pointed a gun outfitted with a bump stock at a crowd of concertgoers and fired more than a thousand rounds. Aiming from the window of his Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino suite, he unleashed a massacre at the Route 91 music festival, killing 60 people and injuring over 400. Public outrage led to the ban of bump stocks by the US Justice Department.

On Friday, the same justices who upended Roe v. Wade on the premise of protecting innocent lives, reversed the bump stock ban, putting machine guns back into the hands of disgruntled, ax-to-grind, insane, Americans.

The psychopathy of their decision could not be more clear. They simply don’t see the value of life unless it is still germinating, non-viable, and unborn.

Last night, I laid awake mulling this question around: How on earth did this nation’s highest arbiters of justice justify limiting a woman’s access to an abortion but not a potential murderer’s access to an automatic weapon?

I wondered if anyone else is asking this question. Or wondering why our society is now labeling women “murderers” even if an abortion is the only thing that will save their life. And yet men are awarded a powerful weapon to facilitate a planned killing spree. I mean, who else would need a bump stock?

Are the justices just narrow-minded, ignorant of truth, adherents to a false biblical doctrine, or corrupted in servitude to those who landed them the job?

Whatever may be the cause, it sounds like they gathered in a room, maybe Ginny Thomas’ living room, and discussed how making America great again depends on birthing a new bumper crop of unwanted babies, and simultaneously enabling the efficient killing of concert-goers, mall shoppers, air travelers, and even school children.

What could have led these “Christian” justices to go astray? Certainly, not God.

The bible has never been clear on when life begins, but has made clear when it ends…at least on this plane. Throughout the history of Christianity there has never been a consensus on when life begins. According to the Old Testament, life is the breath of God, so in Judaism life begins when the head of a baby emerges from the womb and takes its first breath.

The justices either don’t know this history or don’t care. They even ignore the science that proves life is a self-sustaining process. A fertilized egg is not self-sustaining. Most religions accept this, and even our predecessors who lived during biblical times seemed to know this.

So why would the high court’s conservative justices conclude they know better than God?

When a mother suffers a miscarriage, don’t the religious among us offer condolences with comforting words such as “It was God’s will”? Millions of longed-for pregnancies end in miscarriages every single year, far outnumbering abortions. Does this make God a murderer, too, then? Or, perhaps, a mass murderer?

Despite what they profess, our conservative justices can’t truly believe in God. Otherwise, how could they gift Americans with the wherewithal to kill hundreds of people as quickly as possible? And how could they deny any woman the free will that God grants us all?

But it’s not just these justices who deny women their rights and dignity. Earlier Friday evening I saw Mark Robinson, the frontrunner in North Carolina’s Gubernatorial campaign, bluntly state, “For me there’s no compromise on abortion. It makes no difference to me why or how that child ended up in that womb. Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers, it’s about killing a child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down. It’s not your body anymore.”

So there you have it. It makes no difference if you were raped, bad girl! You failed in your duty to fight off the rapist and keep your skirt down. Besides, you don’t own your body anymore.

Really? This language sounds like hate speech to me—the kind that could only come from a dyed in the wool misogynist who’s hell bent on crushing every woman’s spirit.

If God means well—and I’m certain the love of heaven is more benevolent than any of us can fathom—it would move the highest court in our land to end gun violence and even restore a woman’s divine right to choose and act on her own free will. But the conservatives who sit on that court are either not attuned to the will of God, or are following their own free will in serving their biggest donors’ political interests.