One of my main problems with this issue is the disconnect between the Republican party's pro-life stance and how they treat people. A friend of mine recently shared this photo with me on Facebook, about all of the help the Republicans deny different groups. As the sign poignantly remarks upon- we will take care of you to make sure that you will be born, but once you are born, we have no intentions of protecting you from going broke from expensive medical treatments which you cannot pay for, or breast cancer prevention (mammogram testing), etc. Being sick is not a choice, which is why I believe that whether or not the Catholic Church's morals allows Catholics to receive previously mentioned women's health care, they should provide it as an option for all employees and people who have their health care. It simply does not make sense to be pro-life and not let people then have a good life where they do not have to worry about whether they can receive medical attention or not because it may cost them their house for something like a few chemotherapy treatments. Back to where I began, women in the election. Most women would and maybe even should be appalled by the Republican party's lack of support for their well-being. Here is a statistic on how much women effect who is in power, a "survey asked in the summer which party should control Congress, 46 percent of women favored Democrats and 42 percent preferred Republican control. But in a survey released Monday ... that figure had widened considerably to a 15-point advantage for the Democrats "(Source). It has been 90 years since women gained suffrage, and their vote is finally starting to matter. But I wonder in terms of the Republicans, how can they expect to win the race when they are upsetting women, who according to the NYtimes article "were 53 percent of the national vote in 2008 " ?
I think you're mistaken when it comes to protecting people's rights. It's pretty absurd to suggest that just because republicans aren't in favor of handouts and mandates on the private sector, they're against the rights of a certain group or groups. I don't call myself a republican, and I understand the hypocrisy that often stems from their side of the aisle, but this has nothing to do with disrespecting rights - it's about protecting everyone's rights by not putting mandates on the private sector that could potentially cause a lot of trouble for innocent people.
ReplyDeleteThe same argument that you are making could be used to justify communism. Some Marxist might ask, "why don't you respect the rights of poor people?" Of course, the answer would be that just because we don't have absolute redistribution of wealth, nobody's taking away rights from poor people. There is a big difference between protecting everyone's natural rights to property, speech, religion, etc, and doling out special favors to certain groups of people over others. And in fact, as history has proven, respecting capitalism and not burdening it with regulations is the best way to provide wealth to the most amount of people.