Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
It’s not hypocrisy in the same way that the Pope’s opposition to both birth control and abortion isn’t hypocrisy: the ends don’t justify the means. I assume you think of government support for pregnant women as a good thing, but a lot of conservatives appear to disagree with you. To them, abortion is bad, government “handouts” are bad, and even if abortion is worse than handouts, doing a bad thing to prevent an even worse thing is wrong.
But we (and they) know that reducing government support for pregnant women increases the number of abortions.
So they profess to wanting to “save lives” by ending abortions, while doing something that increases rhe number of abortions.
How exactly is that not hypocrasy?
It’s not hypocrisy in the same way that the Pope’s opposition to both birth control and abortion isn’t hypocrisy: the ends don’t justify the means. I assume you think of government support for pregnant women as a good thing, but a lot of conservatives appear to disagree with you. To them, abortion is bad, government “handouts” are bad, and even if abortion is worse than handouts, doing a bad thing to prevent an even worse thing is wrong.
That is also hypocrisy, thanks for another great example.
That is literally what the government is for, to support its citizens, yes.
They also disagree with climate change and the earth being more than 6000 years old. Doesn’t make them right, or any less hypocritical.