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Telling lies about Fluke
The lies that Republicans are telling about Sandra Fluke are despicable.
Fluke says she wants health care plans to cover contraception. Republicans have said, and Kathryn Korkus recently repeated in a March 9 letter, that Fluke wants the government to pay for her promiscuity. How do Republicans know Fluke is promiscuous? They don’t. How does Korkus know? She doesn’t.
Do Republicans and Korkus not know that birth control has numerous health functions for women other than preventing pregnancy? Of course they do. Do they not know that pregnancy prevention is the best known method to reduce the abortion rate? They know that, too.
Apart from undermining the Roe v. Wade decision, the real plan here is to immortalize as a person the human blastocyte – any fertilized human egg. As one reader put it years ago, a blastocyte should be protected because it is a nascent human entity. It is a mystery to me how anyone could get emotionally attached to something as abstract as a nascent human entity, but never mind.
The bigger mystery is how Republicans think they can win elections with lies and nonsense like this. Who is going to vote for them?
Lee Freese
Pullman