A culture of life.....until you're born

Bull Moose takes on the hypocrisy of the "Pro-Life" folks.

Throughout the campaign, President Bush constantly remarked that he favored "a culture of life". Those words, of course, were a code phrase to reassure pro-lifers that the President was on their side without explicitly stating that he was opposed to abortion rights. The "culture of life" phrase is politically useful to the Republicans because it is not a hard-edge pronoucement of anti-abortion views that could alienate pro-choice Republicans. After all, who could be opposed to a culture of life besides Dr. Death?

In this regard, Barney Frank once caustically remarked that anti-abortionists were pro-life from conception through birth. That was perhaps an unfair remark, but not entirely off the mark.

He then goes on to discuss this Nicholas Kristof column where we learn that Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the US. There is no outrage over this, there is no outrage over the thousands of Iraqi children who have been killed during the US invasion of Iraq. It looks like Barney Frank has it right. Protect the children until they are born then anything goes.

Update
Bill in DC has corrected me and I stand corrected.

"There is no outrage over this, there is no outrage over the thousands of Iraqi children who have been killed during the US invasion of Iraq. It looks like Barney Frank has it right. Protect the children until they are born then anything goes."

Ron, that's a very unfair comment. Have no pregnant women been killed in Iraq along with their unborn children? I'm sure our adventure there has been just as deadly to the unborn as to the born.