Oh Civility, Where Have You Gone?

We should all remember the urgent cry by Obama and the Democrats for civility, especially on the part of the right, like Sarah Palin, for having in some way “targeted” representative Giffords in Arizona in January.   In the wake of the settlement just made to avoid a federal shutdown, the lack of civility on the part of Democrats in the House and Senate is appalling.


Nancy Pelosi accuses the GOP of “a war on women”. (1) 
Representative Elizabeth slaughter, a New York Democrat representative, declared that the Republicans are out to “kill women”. (2)
DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton angrily remarked:  “We are absolutely outraged.  This is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians,”  “It’s time that the District of Columbia told the Congress to go straight to hell,” (3)


These outrageous comments stem from Republican attempts to defund abortion, not because these legislators are trying to limit access to abortion, but because they believe tax payer money should not be used for these kinds of “women's rights”.


When one ponders the context in which these gratuitous and outlandish comments are made one hears that these congresswomen couch "women's rights" in terms of “women's health”. Thus the attempts of Republicans to remove tax funding is seen as an attack on the health of women and health care in particular, a complete obfuscation of the facts.


Democrat Sen. Patty Murray of the state of Washington has declared, as advocates for Planned Parenthood rallied at the Capitol, “We in the Senate are going to stand up,”   “We are not going to allow them to push us into taking away women’s right to health care access in order to keep the government funded.” (4)

I do not believe that these congresswomen, deep down, look at abortion as the killing of a child.  They use abortion as a tool which empowers them to hold sway over those, who have been deluded by a permissive education system which teaches that freedom stems from a life lived with a maximum of pleasure.  These same legislators subsequently mandate the provision of whatever is needed to handle the consequences, including abortion.  It is their way of ensuring that these misguided individuals will surely keep them in power.  This is why the Democrat party is guided by abortion - it is their prime source of power.

(1) http://centralny.ynn.com/content/politics/539401/republicans-react-to-slaughter-s-controversial-comments/

(2) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/07/pelosi-there-is-a-war-on-women/

(3) http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/politics/delegate-eleanor-holmes-norton-upset-over-treatment-of-dc-during-shutdown-resolution-talks-040711#ixzz1J76fMY85

(4)http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0411/Murray_stunned_government_might_shutter_over_Planned_Parenthood.html