It is amazing how states that are anti abortion are also, in many cases, very willing to victimize the poor, once they are born, by refusal to expand Medicaid for the most needy!
So the idea seems to be to make sure everyone is born, and then you are on your own, as far as health care, if you are unfortunate enough to be the poorest in our society in those states, all of which are “red” or Republican states!
Among the states that will punish people who are poor, include:
Texas
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Kansas
Altogether, about half the states will resist Medicaid expansion, and therefore determine that the lives of the poor who have no medical coverage do not matter!
And IF these people go to emergency rooms, they will get minimal care, and it will cost more than covering them under Medicaid!
So people who believe in the “right to life” are willing to see lives shortened, as long as they are born! After that, you are on your own, including children and the elderly!
What hypocrisy on the part of these state governors and legislatures, and the Republican Party, and yet the people in those states vote Republican out of ignorance and promotion of racism and nativism!
Absolutely unbelievable! Is this the kind of country we want to live in and promote for the future? The concept is maddening!