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According to a plank adopted by a 112-member Republican committee meeting here, an “unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life that cannot be infringed.” The platform also calls for legislation recognizing the rights of unborn children under the 14th Amendment.That language would appear to be incompatible with exceptions when pregnancies result from rape or incest. But the draft does not specifically address the issue of exceptions, and party leaders here said that the issue is too complex to be addressed in what is intended to be a broad statement of party principle, and that it should be left up to states in a federal system.
This might seem crazy to most sane people across the country, but it's standard operating procedure for anti-government conservatives since the days of Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist in the 1980s. They have been on a mission to turn the American government into an evangelical, laissez-faire marketplace that looks and operates like Apartheid South Africa.
Fascinating article and reveals what deep doodoo we must avoid that has been dumped by the right wing crazies.
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In fact, the apartheid government made an ideal love-match for the American far right. South Africa was the place where all the strands of eighties conservatism came together. It was a God-fearing land where American corporations did well, where Christianity was written into the constitution, and where the government wasn’t squeamish about the death penalty.
It's taken over thirty years for these agents of libertarian gobbledygook to turn one major political party into a caricature, but they're still pushing for their 'utopian dream,' as Thomas Frank coined the phrase, and nothing will get in their way. They turned the once great 'public service' mantra of the New Dealers, where young people strove to make a difference in the lives of average Americans of the 1930s and '40s into a new breed of greedy Randians in the Bush years, where all manufacturing jobs were left to those places with distant borders and inhumane cheap labor.
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