Several notable events have occurred this week highlighting the right's hypocrisy on the "life" issue. We cats couldn't help noticing a pattern. Here they are:
The Virginia Board of Health has passed the nation's most restrictive (and, frankly, ridiculous) regulations on abortion clinic operations. Hm. We cats are a tad past the kitten-bearing age anyway, but until young women in this country start protesting against right-wing men deciding their reproductive destiny, we can only say we're also glad we're fixed.
Speaking of children (and how they must never, ever be aborted), it appears that the famous quitter from Alaska isn't much of a mom.
We cats sure wish we knew the woman who allegedly told Presidential candidate and all-around crank Michele Bachmann that the HPV vaccine made her daughter retarded, because we'd love to make a quick $10,000. But good for the Minnesota bioethicists who are calling Bachmann out.
Finally, brrrr. The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of that black guy in Texas because of questions about the fairness of his sentencing. The condemned man had come within hours of death and had already eaten his last meal.
Boy, how we cats dislike capital punishment. We can't think of anything more cruel for the state to do than to whipsaw somebody back and forth from the death chamber. Of course, we guess that the pseudo-Christians over at Free Republic see nothing wrong with it and are probably furious that Duane Buck is still around. But you know what? We don't feel like visiting their paranoid, bloodthirsty little world this morning. Sorry, readers — you'll have to do it yourselves.
2 comments:
Didn't used to agree with you on capital punishment, but now am 100% on your side. I used to feel that the families were entitled to a sense of retribution, but all it is is a desire for revenge which is something they should have to deal with along with grief.
We cats salute you and note that today in Georgia, the parole board has denied clemency to an inmate whose guilt, to say the least, has been cast into doubt. So Troy Davis is headed for the death chamber for the fourth time in four years. This is madness. We're not sure how the parole board members sleep at night — but then, "pro-lifers" George W. Bush and Rick Perry never have any trouble, do they?
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