Unintended consequences

William Burton makes an excellent point:

Do the "pro-life" crowd embrace condoms and birth control pills as a sensible way to prevent abortions without intruding in women's lives? Of course not. They do everything they can to reduce the access and information that women, especially young ones, are given to brith control, thereby increasing the number of abortions every year. That's right, there will be more abortions this year worldwide than there would've been had George Bush not taken office. Take it to the bank. There will be even more because the Republicans took control of Congress a few years back and immediately started slashing family planning funds both at home and abroad.

What becomes clear, after observing the real-world outcomes of this kind of right-wing agenda, is that the moralizing of Republican politicians has little to do with actually improving either our morals or our lives. It has to do with having the government help subsidize conservatives' campaign to create an undereducated working class that is captive to fundamentalist religions.