There’s Nothing Pro-Life about The Trump Administration, or Amy Coney Barrett
By: Jessica Wildfire
Tags: Society, Politics, Women, Feminism, Equality

There’s Nothing Pro-Life about The Trump Administration, or Amy Coney Barrett

It’s all about power and control.

Here’s what someone with an agenda sounds like:

“I can’t say… I’m going in with some agenda. I don’t have any agenda. I have no agenda… I [only] have an agenda to stick to the rule of law.” That’s what Donald Trump’s third appointment to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, said during her confirmation hearings this week. She was answering questions about abortion rights.

Republicans can’t even fool themselves anymore.

There’s no point in pretending that Trump, or any of his Supreme Court nominees, care about life in any form. If they did, they wouldn’t be going through with half their plans.

Protecting life has never been on their agenda.

They’re up to something else. Everyone knows it by now, which is why we’re calling them out. Silence is approval.

Trump treats humans like fodder.

This is about more than the Supreme Court. The Trump administration has claimed the moral high ground for years now, while continually devaluing lives that don’t serve their agenda.

The pandemic is a perfect example of how the GOP views the dynamic between life and control. Some human life is expendable, so Trump can keep bragging about the economy.

The most recent reports confirm what we’ve been fearing for weeks now. Trump is ready to sacrifice us for a jobs report.

The White House plans to officially endorse the herd immunity approach, even though barely 10 percent of the population has been exposed to the virus at this point. He doesn’t care. Our risk is his fail safe, in case vaccine and antibody trials continue to halt.

As the GOP sees it, letting a few hundred thousand additional people die is worth the cost of economic progress.

Trump is dancing while people die.

Forget his Sunday golfing.

In case you’re still wondering how much Trump values life, watch him dance at a maskless rally earlier this week:

Trump clearly thinks the pandemic is over, as far as he’s concerned. He talks about it in the past tense now.

He caught the coronavirus. He’s getting better (allegedly). Now he assumes it’s going to go that way for everyone else. Like he said, “You catch the virus, you recover, you’re immune.” That’s true for everyone except the 220,000 people who’ve died this year.

Almost a thousand people have died in just the last 24 hours. It’s a daily reality right now.

It doesn’t look like he’s in mourning. This is the dance of a man who clearly cares about one life: His own.

And then there’s the matter of COVID-19 reinfection, which health experts still don’t completely understand yet. None of this has stopped the White House from yanking a CDC order requiring face masks in all transportation hubs. The message is blunt: They want everyone to get sick in order to speed the recovery, knowing it’s going to kill people.

The Supreme Court plans to end Affordable Care.

If Trump or his administration were pro-life, it wouldn’t make any sense to snatch healthcare from millions of Americans. That goes double if your brilliant plan to deal with a pandemic is to sit back and have a diet coke, while letting a deadly virus infect everyone.

Amy Coney Barrett can dodge and deny all she wants. We know enough. She’s not qualified. She’s merely the handmaid to help Trump dismantle the Affordable Care Act. She knows this.

She doesn’t care.

Her nomination is about her, and her ambition. You can hear this in every calculated answer she gives. When asked about matters of life and death, she refuses to give any “pre-commitments.”

The sad irony is that Trump supporters are going to feel it as fast as anyone, when they’re suddenly dropped from their insurance, and their president tries to blame everything on Obama.

Some still won’t care. They’ve made their decision to support Trump based on a single issue, abortion.

So let’s talk about that for a minute…

Anti-abortion laws don’t save lives.

Time and again, research shows that limiting women’s access to abortion is the least effective way to reduce unwanted pregnancy. Sex education and access to contraception work far better.

Red states have the strictest abortion laws, but they offer the least amount of support for families in poverty, including single mothers. They offer the least help for victims of domestic abuse. They offer the poorest mental healthcare, and they have the highest number of uninsured mothers. If that weren’t enough, they also have the highest maternity mortality rates. Take South Carolina. The state has 14 different restrictions on abortion. As of 2017, their maternal mortality rate has tripled.

It’s pretty clear.

Banning abortion does nothing but kill expecting moms, while making women poor and miserable.

Someone with Amy Coney Barret’s privileged education is capable of grasping this logic, and the evidence. She simply doesn’t care. She’s one of the many white, affluent women who remain insulated from the impacts of their decisions. It’s not very compassionate.

It’s not very pro-life.

Pro-lifers don’t see their own hypocrisy.

Most pro-life advocates oppose the regulation on just about everything. Guns. Markets. The environment. You name it.

Most of them won’t even wear a mask. “It’s a personal choice,” they say, parroting the president.

These same people want to regulate a woman’s body.

They want to make it a universal law that life begins the minute a woman’s done having sex. They want to deny her the right to end a pregnancy in the last trimester, no matter what medical reason she might have. They want her to die in agony with her unborn infant, ensuring that she’ll never have another chance to become a mother.

Does that sound pro-life?

Pro-lifers don’t understand life at all.

Just listen to politicians like Ted Cruz try to describe the female reproductive system. Listen to Vito Barbieri, the Idaho representative who thinks doctors should conduct a gynecology exam by having women swallow a tiny camera. Sure. That’s where the uterus is located. Her stomach.

It would be hilarious if these clowns didn’t hold any real power over women’s bodies. But they do.

So you know, it’s terrifying.

These people want to regulate and legislate women’s bodies, but they don’t know the first thing about those bodies.

It’s shameful that our leaders don’t even have to know how life is created in order to have this much power over it.

All they care about is power and privilege.

Pro-life politicians don’t know how sex works. They don’t know how plants pollinate. They couldn’t explain how a cell divides, or tell you the difference between an egg and an embryo.

Many of them have never even seen a baby delivered.

They don’t care about life at all. They care about one thing. For them, it’s all about power and control.

Here’s the worst part:

In the end, it’ll be a woman who helps overturn Roe V. Wade, one who understands what’s at stake. She’s more than willing to sacrifice thousands of women’s lives over the coming years, all in order to achieve her own career ambitions, in line with her own personal religious views.

So congratulations in advance to Amy Coney Barrett on her confirmation. We all know it’s going to happen.

She’s in good company.

I’ll say that.