This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

No doubt, absolutely, the last thing Republicans needed going into an election cycle. A messy abortion case where the state seeks to intervene over medical advice. This isn’t about aborting a bouncing cooing little baby. This is about a fetus which is dead or will soon be dead regardless of medical intervention. It isn’t about saving the fetus, which is impossible and can’t be done. It’s about the mother’s life.

It’s about Bible thumpers who think their god is sending THEM messages. They’re here to save us from ourselves, despite their lacking a thorough medical education. Forcing a woman to endure this religiously inspired state sponsored torture. Something evil right out of the dark ages of the pillory and the stock.  SAVE Now at Burqas R 4 YOU! Ask your husband!

Imagine having to go ask a government official for permission for a medical procedure. And then imagine being told “No.” Now Imagine that the denial was based on a quotation from Mao’s Red book or Dr. Suess. Or maybe even some old religious texts thousands of years old of an unattributed source. Why not let them run or lives?  

Religious freedom run amok. It was once against the law to attempt heart surgery; the heart was God’s sacred organ, and it would be wrong to intervene in God’s mystery. Wrong to teach about Galileo or Darwin. Wrong to teach about sex, wrong to live in the modern world. They’re Christians and so have all the answers for everybody. You don’t need a mask, cough, cough. You don’t need a vaccine.

And in Texas too, where the 18^th Century still lives and flourishes. Where irony has no reflection in the mirror. Texas fights to keep barriers of razor wire on the river while forcing an otherwise healthy woman to give birth to a dead baby. Simply to please a voting block that doesn’t know its ass from a hole in the ground.

Ever so slowly, has the message been dawning on Republican politicians that the public disapproves handily in these denials of human reproductive rights. So, they’ve toned down the rhetoric some, so as not to be identified as one of them Republicans. The speaker of the house Mike, Whatever says, he believes God has called him to be the new “Moses.”

No problem there, do you hear these voices often? It’s like reincarnation; everybody was Roman General or Napoleon or Cleopatra in their past life. Nobody was ever a slave or stable boy getting their ass kicked. God wants him to be “Moses!” Not just to be a good guy or to lead a saintly life, but “Moses.” Grandiose? You bet! But didn’t Moses get lost for forty years? Poor sense of direction perhaps, fortunately God provided food for everybody magically falling out the sky.

I wonder why God doesn’t do that trick anymore? Probably the same reason televangelists don’t work in the emergency room. The trick always works best under controlled conditions of “no witnesses” and time. Lots and lots of time.

For a generation this was the Republican rallying cry to save them wittle babies. Squirting tears with a Bible in one hand while advocating for the second Amendment and the death penalty with the other. The end of Roe has brought an end to the coalition. No need to send any more money now! Mission Accomplished!

As President Kennedy put it, “The torch has been passed to a new generation.” A generation which has lost their reproductive rights and they are angry about it. Just as the Republicans see success, they are pounded in the head by it. The rising generation is strongly pro-choice. The Republicans have awakened a sleeping giant and made it angry and filled it with a terrible resolve.

The Texas case will ring nationwide as it illustrates a political party out of step with public opinion. The wanton cruelty of a political party valuing ancient writings on a scroll over a living breathing human being. Putting an inhuman face on Republican hypocrisy and cruelty.

When Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate had no problem connecting aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. McConnell was signaling to Mike Whatever. That any hold up in aid would be on the House of Flying monkeys. Russia celebrates, Victory is ours comrades! God bless the Republican Party!

The idea that Republican flying monkeys would abandon an American ally fighting off its larger aggressive dictator neighbor is reprehensible. Their idea is to tie aid to Ukraine to changes in the domestic border policy. To literally put the lives of thousands of people at risk holding them hostage for their self-serving little border project to please their base.  

The Republican flying monkeys sending out a message to the whole world, to friend and foe alike! We aren’t to be trusted! Our word doesn’t mean Jack shit! When the going gets tough, the tough get going! And we’re going!

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge–and more.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do–for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom–and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” – John F. Kennedy

Unamerican Flying Monkey Republicans willing to use the suffering and misfortune of others to score points with their base. From one woman’s suffering to an entire nation.