I don't understand how anyone of average means would want to have a child in this country in this day and age as our government is against us. Sheesh.

Yeah, 'cause why would we want children to have something as non-essential and unimportant as health insurance? Much better to spend money on abstinance-only education instead.

Doesn't it seem to you that right-wingers have gotten more shameless over the past several years? First destroying anti-trust laws (supreme court) and now openly denying health insurance to poor children?

I tell you, if the left-wingers or even the liberals in this country had any balls, they would have been running the biggest smear campaign on this issue imaginable, comparable to the little girl with the daisy Nixon ads of days past . Something comparing Bush et al to Scrooge, kicking the crutches away from Tiny Tim.

I mean...they're not even pretending anymore.

This is unbelievable. So much for "family values."

Let this be a blinking sign that Republicans are more concerned with killing people and waging expensive wars abroad than they are about taking care of our own here. Really shows you how "pro-life" they are.

Pardon me for speaking internet, but OMFGWTFBBQ!!!

They couldn't get 13 votes?! What the firetruck is wrong with this society (Elephants and Asses alike)!?

So, just to sum up the news of the week, the "culture of death" is about:

--Protecting women's lives and health by ensuring access to abortion;
--Making sure people have a way to avoid having children they can't afford to feed by making contraception accessible;

Whereas the "culture of life" champions:

--Children dying from easily preventable and treatable diseases;
--Women being killed and maimed to save the "lives" of fertilised eggs;
--Increasing the number of starving children whose parents couldn't afford and didn't want them;
(in addition to the death penalty, nuclear weapons, and all those other life-affirming things)

God forbid we drop our expenditures on nuclear weapons down to the inflation adjusted cold war levels and invest that in our own society. But I suppose by then the commi... Er, terrorists, will have already won.