In military parlance the fog of war is the uncertainty in situational
awareness experienced by participants in military operations, and the
term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one’s own capability,
adversary capability, and adversary intent during an engagement,
operation, or campaign. Over the past year, repugicans have been
uncertain about whom their real enemies are in their perpetual war to
control America, but one thing is beyond question and that is repugicans are engaged in a war against nearly all Americans.
One of Republicans’ greatest crusades has been their war on women’s
reproductive rights according to their so-called pro-life designation
they claim is to protect the unborn that observers opine ends when a
fetus breathes air and becomes a living human being. Between their
disregard for new mothers, infants, and children borne of their
perpetual attacks on social programs through spending cuts, it began to
appear that the only thing repugicans cared about was
zygotes,
embryos, and
fetuses; they have always hated the mother.
As it turns out, in their blood lust to withhold healthcare from any
American, coupled with their sheer hatred for the Affordable Care Act, repugicans revealed that they hate the unborn at the same level they
hate women, infants and children. The repugican crusade against the
Affordable Care Act is expanding and now includes
assailing
the requirement that basic insurance policies cover maternity,
pre-natal, and newborn care. The chairperson of the House repugican
Women’s Policy Committee, Representative Renee Ellmers, is leading the
charge against the repugican cabal’s latest target in the ACA; the requirement that
health insurance policies include maternity and prenatal care as part of
basic healthcare coverage.
The glaring hypocrisy of the “
pro-life” party is nothing new
as repugicans have, without remorse or regard for the unborn, slashed
government spending on programs to help expectant mothers, but they
revealed their true contempt when they began using both their lust to
protect healthcare insurance profits and their hatred of the Affordable
Care Act to decry inclusion of maternity and prenatal care as a basic
component of health insurance plans. The oft-stated remark that repugicans love a zygote but hate living breathing babies is,
apparently, inaccurate and better stated that repugicans just hate
pregnant women and the unborn in spite of their tireless effort to force
America’s women to become birth machines or remain abstinent.
This new repugican war on fetuses, zygotes, and embryos is
particularly draconian because the requirement to include maternity and
prenatal care in health plans is no different than requiring healthcare
insurance policies to include yearly physicals, doctor visits, or
hospitalization. Ellmers claims the maternity and
prenatal coverage is unfair to males because “
a man has never delivered a baby,” and Deroy Murdoch of the National Review said, “
How about lesbians who do not want kids, and are highly unlikely to become pregnant accidentally.”
It is not that wingnuts have a newfound love for men or lesbians;
they just hate expectant mothers and the unborn, and do not want them to
receive medical care whether it is from a government-funded program or a
private health insurance policy they pay for themselves.
The repugicans claim it is a travesty for healthcare plans to include
maternity and pre-natal coverage for policy-holders who will never give
birth, and yet they are silent about healthcare policies covering
prostrate exams, boner pills, or testicular cancer that are unique to
men’s health but included as a basic service in healthcare plans
purchased by men and women. The travesty is that the pro-life party
purporting to protect the unborn is railing against the requirement that
private healthcare policies include coverage to protect mothers and the
unborn by providing maternity coverage; something 'right-to-life'
advocates and 'pro-life' repugicans should celebrate and defend if they
were really “
pro-life” or serious about reducing abortions.
One would think the anti-abortion crowd and their repugican
pro-lifers would be consistent in their right-to-life advocacy and
support coverage, whether through government programs or private
insurance policies, that may mean a woman is more likely to choose to
carry the fetus to term if she knew that both she and her fetus will
receive regular medical attention. However, these are the same repugicans that decry any program that helps expectant mothers and
their fetuses, or their children by opposing expanded healthcare
coverage, food stamps, the Women, Infants and Children feeding program
(WIC), and other measures to help parents after their children are born.
In the past, Democrats and liberals have sought to find common ground
with anti-abortion groups on issues like maternal and child care, WIC,
and other programs to help ensure that a woman is never forced to have
an abortion for economic reasons, but that would mean 'pro-life' repugicans cared about women, fetuses, and children; something they are
incapable of.
This latest assault is more than just hypocrisy of 'pro-life' repugicans who, on one hand, claim to be protectors of the unborn while
they oppose domestic spending for pre-natal healthcare, and now
inclusion of pre-natal care in private healthcare insurance. It is all
about their blatant disregard for any American who is not part of the
wealthy elite as well as using any means to restrict Americans from
having access to healthcare whether it is Medicare, Medicaid, or private
insurance through an ACA exchange. It is also about forcing women, all
women, to remain abstinent until they marry a man who will provide and
pay for healthcare for themselves and their unborn children.
Over the course of the past four years, Americans have witnessed the
depth of repugicans’ evil nature and their inhumane disregard for all
Americans; particularly women and children. But now that they are
attacking a requirement in private healthcare insurance with the same
intensity as domestic programs to protect the health of expectant
mothers and the unborn, their contempt for human life is clearly
evident. If nothing else, Americans should comprehend that repugicans’
'pro-life' self-designation, like every aspect of their existence, is
nothing more than a label to garner electoral support for their
ever-expanding war against Americans that now includes zygotes, fetuses,
and embryos.
