"The Culture of Life" verses Profit
At the end of June, the US Senate voted to ban the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) from using studies that expose people to
pesticides when considering permits. The law, in a watered downed
form, passed. 37 Senators voted against it. What is significant is
that these are also amongst the Senate's most ardent anti-choice
(aka. "pro-life") Senators. President "Culture of Life" Bush is
pushing the EPA to accept data from human tests on children, pregnant
women, newborns, infants and fetuse (even newborns of 'uncertain
viability' could be tested).
So Bush and 37 mostly "pro-life" Republicans support allowing
corporations to test hazardous chemicals on fetuses and pregnant
women. The health of people -- including the unborn children they
claim to love so dearly -- mean nothing against the profits of
chemical/agribusiness companies. But then "pro-life" is about
controlling women -- it was never about the unborn.
As usual, the Republician right's ideology on social issues, which
they claim is unwavering, strangely disappears when it comes up
against the wishes of Corporate America. The hypocrisy of the right
really does know no bounds.
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