All life is sacred, except for poor people.

Dear Religious Right,

I saw one of your billboards the other day, it said “All life is sacred, from conception to death.”

It was a nice billboard, the typography was clear and easy to read from my car. Well done.

Oh, except for one thing: the message you were trying to portray, that we should all be pro-life and anti-euthanasia, is just a tad contradictory to the battle you are currently waging against health care reform.

You see, there are 43 million uninsured people in this country, give or take. You may have insurance, so you don’t really think about it too much if you get the flu or break your leg. You just go see your doctor or head to the emergency room and it’s all taken care of.

Your 43 million fellow citizens, however, can’t go to the doctor if they get the flu. While you may pay $10 or $20 dollars per office visit, these people are responsible for the entire cost. Trust me, when you’re struggling to make ends meet, you don’t have a couple hundred bucks laying around to go see the doctor, and don’t even get me started on how much the prescription would cost with no insurance.

So you see, because uninsured people can’t afford to go to the doctor, they end up getting sicker and sicker. Statistically speaking, the uninsured live shorter, unhealthier lives than those with access to health care.

Let me say that again: UNINSURED PEOPLE DIE EARLIER THAN INSURED PEOPLE.

So, how can you, the very vocal, very well-organized minority within the Republican party, willfully ignore logic by saying that each and every life is valuable, then turn around and tell the poor that because they lack the resources, they can’t have access to the health care that could help them live a happier, healthier, longer life?

Is winning a political battle over a president you don’t like for some vague, unexplainable reason (I still think it’s because he’s black,) more important than actually adhering to your own morality? Or are you just so ignorant that you can’t understand that being so adamantly pro-life and anti-health care reform, you are holding irreconcilable beliefs?

Don’t know what irreconcilable means? It means your views on abortion and health care are contradictory.

Contradictory? No? It means someone who is pro-life is the opposite of someone who is anti-health care.

I know it doesn’t make sense, it’s because you can’t really be the opposite of yourself, right? I guess what I’m trying to tell you is that you can’t be both anti-health care and pro-life at the same time.

If you are truly committed to your belief that every life is sacred, then you must support health care reform that includes a provision for all Americans to have affordable health care.

You need to stop listening to what Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Joe Wilson and Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley are telling you. These people are manipulating you to gain power and wealth for themselves. Think about it.

Seriously, think about it hard. Why is an unborn child’s life more valuable than those of the millions who have recently lost their jobs and health coverage in this country? Why is it worth more than the families of the unemployed? The working poor?

So what do you do?

Well, if you just can’t bring yourself to support the policies put forth by the Democrats and the president you hate so much (I still don’t get the vitriol, but that’s an argument for another day,) you could always just become pro-choice and say that no lives are valuable.

See, that works, because then you could still be pro-death penalty. Hooray!

Kindest regards,

RS

P.S. Could you please rein Michelle Bachmann in? She’s really getting scary.

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