Guns, abortion and COVID in America: Life, death and differences too stark to bridge
In an ideal world, Roe v. Wade would endure, the nation would unite to fight COVID, and Congress would have acted long ago to prevent gun tragedies.
Jill LawrenceIt’s been an intense life-and-death week in America: Four teenagers are killed in a school shooting, the Supreme Court debates abortion, a new COVID strain arrives – and none of the arguments over any of it make political or constitutional or public health sense.
If you’re “pro-life,” why not support reasonable gun restrictions? Why not support COVID vaccines to save lives, including your own? If you think the Constitution gives you the right to control your own body, why oppose vaccine mandates but require people to bear children? If you believe in the constitutional principle of religious freedom, why support repeal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing the right to abortion? Not all religions hold that life begins at conception, nor do all Americans. In fact, only 38% agree with that.