Edited sentence: And it seems they are perfectly willing to tolerate more abortions to achieve those goals.If you take Republicans at their word--that they seek to protect the lives of fetuses--then it is inexplicable... [perhaps] [w]hat they really oppose is not so much the deaths of innocent fetuses but female reproductive freedom and premarital sex.Republicans like to claim that they are the defenders of "life," particularly the lives of those who are most vulnerable, such as the severely brain-damaged and the unborn... how do you explain the fact that, on March 17, Senate Republicans rejected... a comprehensive plan to reduce unwanted pregnancies and thereby reduce abortions.Some, such as Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas.argue that "pro-life" politicians use moral issues about the lives of the unborn to distract voters from their economic concerns, while the liberal The New Republic argues that these politicians' actions do not support their rhetoric: