When is enough enough?
I’m talking about evangelical fanatics who are also Republican politicians trying their best to turn America into a nation where extremism is the rule rather than the exception.
The latest example is in Arizona where the state legislature passed an abortion law the governor signed that is nothing more than a vengeful effort to make all abortions illegal.
This new law requires physicians to perform unnecessary medical procedures on a baby with no chance of survival because of a fatal fetal anomaly. In some instances an abortion is performed when the mother’s life is at risk because of the anomaly.
Before the new law physicians provided what was called “comfort care” to the infant after delivery that allowed parents to spend quiet time with the newborn until he or she dies.
The law now requires that doctors perform procedures that will interrupt this time without having any medical benefit to the dying infant.
For all practical purposes it punishes grieving parents by putting them in the position of having to watch their dying baby undergo unnecessary procedures.
It is a cruel and unnecessary law, but it was a victory for the anti-abortion fanatics and that is all they care about.
Politicians like the ones who passed this law and the governor who signed it need to be voted out of office, and the voters supporting them need to be exposed for supporting evangelical fanaticism driven by ignorance.
While anti-abortion fanatics often suffer from deep rooted psychological problems and are controlled by unconscious emotional needs, there is no excuse for their being woefully uninformed about the damage their misguided efforts do.
The ignorance that propels them to oversimplify issues and disregard ambiguity and complexity makes these people dangerous, especially since they now have enormous influence in today’s Republican Party.
This is why they are passing such harsh abortion laws in red states legislatures, serving no one’s interest except a small group of fanatics while wasting their state’s time in passing such laws and money in having to defend them in court.
The sad truth is that evangelical fanatics have turned America the beautiful into America the ugly.
That is an irony worth noting, Christians making a country’s spirit, attitude, and actions ugly because of their fanaticism that supposedly exalts the name of Jesus.
If you believe in the power of good, you have to trust that fanatics eventually go too far and undo themselves. The problem is the damage they do before that happens, and how permanent it is.
That is where we now find ourselves as a nation in regard to abortion. Fanatics are determined to go to any length to prevent women the right to choose, to the point of embracing the unethical Machiavellian practice of the ends justifying the means, as the new Arizona law illustrates.
The harsh truth about evangelical fanatics is that they are far “fanatical” than they will ever be “Christian.”
So when is enough enough?
How about yesterday?
linnposts.com 
This kind of stuff is very common in AZ, a state governed by Republicans for many years. Much of this goofy stuff comes out of a thing called Center For Arizona Policy, which is one hard core far right woman. And the legislators listen to this stuff, and often approve it. Last year it was mandatory church attendance, before that it was legal discrimination if it came about because of “sincerely held religious beliefs”. We have a lot of this kind of stuff coming out of our legislature. And the legislators get elected over & over again. Therein lies the problem.
Jan,
You have hit the main point with accuracy and clarity.
Then, to Wally’s last comment: AZ has term limits, which shows how effective that concept is.
Last, back to the thrust of your main point: this is barbarity refined!
Cheerz!
Gene