Yes, they really think like this.

[Scuba]

[NV Whino]

1. Yes, they do.

Somewhere in the Republican mind there is a wire loose.

[RC]

2. Several wiring harnesses, don't you mean?

Logic and people that think like them? What logic?

[NV Whino]

4. Sorry, you're right.

It was my liberal kindness and compassion kicking in.

[RC]

7. Not much of that liberal kindness and compassion left around here.

[jmowreader]

17. I don't think it's that at all

It's more like liberals are wired to be the Mars Rover and conservatives are wired to be a sugar beet refinery. They're completely wired but it is so different that I'm not sure we're on the same planet.

[NV Whino]

21. You've got a point there.

[Fumesucker]

29. You got that right, liberals are like Mars rovers..

[Heather MC]

25. Well it is a damn shame a gift from God is so much freaking work and money

Maybe if God slipped in a Visa debut card with the gift, that would help some?

[blackspade]

40. They've burnt through.

[n2doc]

3. It is all about punishment

Must punish the fornicator by making them have the baby. Must punish both for the 'sins' of the parents. Punish, Punish, Punish.

[Hydra]

6. ^This

There's no love in what they do, it's all hate, envy and control. "Make your bed and sleep in it!" + "Do it the way I say!"

Such utterly miserable and vicious people.

[daleanime]

8. +1

Wish they could keep their masochistic tendencies to themselves, instead of being the only thing that their willing to share.

[zeemike]

12. 100% correct.

It is an authoritarian principle.

[Scuba]

14. Punishing those they've been taught to hate is the glue that holds much of the R base together.

[Mopar151]

18. Punish the mother by taking the baby at birth

Because that baby (particularly if white!) is worth thou$and$ in cash to churches, as nothing will bind a childless woman to the church like a baby.

[me b zola]

39. Thats exactly right

While watching the horror following the earthquake in Haiti, when I thought I could hold no more sadness, I saw just how many US church groups had been operating there for years to "relieve" the impoverished women of their children. It was like a punch to the stomach where you can't catch your breath. Undoubtedly the churches were using their influence to ensure poverty for the Haitians in order to keep the flow of children streaming to US couples.

[Mopar151]

41. American newborns would be worth much more

Particularly if they are white, or can pass. And you are so right about the feeling when you figure this out.

[Dash87]

20. Yup. Then, the bouncer at Heaven's gates will send them to eternal torment.

'Women are dirty and evil beings that tempt men with their beauty and trick them into doing bad things. It's been like that since Adam and Eve.

Since an unwed pregnant woman (or a married pregnant woman that fornicated for a purpose other than having children) is a demonic whore, they must be punished by having a painful child birth (which God did as punishment for Eve's betrayal of him and corruption of Adam) and a baby that they cannot support.

That little bastard doesn't deserve hope anyways. He or she should be punished too for having a whore mother. The seed of a demon is bound to be evil, and therefore should be tortured. '

Isn't organized religion lovely? Feel the love...

[Gemini Cat]

5. Yeah, they really do think (if you can call it think) that way.

Afterwards they brag about how righteous they are to their buddies.

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[RedCloud]

10. Clicks several of their boxes

1. Gummint controls those pesky women who want rights over their bodies. Law costs little money.
2. By forcing childbirth gets the religious right happy as in line with their faith even though God commits more natural abortions.
3. Shows to tough RWers that gummint will let the little beggars starve.

All at virtually zero cost to gummint, but externalities go uncaptured.

[alphafemale]

11. They do.

And they see nothing wrong with it.

[Shrike47]

16. In fact, their proud of it and can't understand why we're shocked.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. "God's Miracle" becomes "A Usless Eater"....

Actually, the reason Republicans became anti-abortion was for something even worse.

They did it so they could point at Democrats and scream, "Baby Killers!!!" to divert attention from the pictures coming out of Nixon's Vietnam.

This has morphed over the years to where now there are actual people in certain areas of the country (I'm looking at YOU Alabama) where they actually believe the "Demoncrats" are killing millions of babies as a blood offering to Satan.

[totodeinhere]

15. It's even spreading to formerly liberal sites like HuffPost.

There was a moron on there saying that it's the responsibility of the parents to feed their children and if they don't that's just too bad. How can a monster who would say such as thing even live with him or herself?

[Historic NY]

19. They only care for the "pre-born" & not the "post born".

[IrishAyes]

22. It can hardly be called thinking at all.

More of a primal pathological fear that if we don't get them first, they'll get us.

Game on.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Universal Health Care

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Support our troops (read support defense contractors) / grind Veterans down

[Scuba]

27. Your graphic deserves an OP. It won't find many eyes here.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Another graphic like the OP's:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Conservatives adore them both:

[kairos12]

30. Nailed it exactly!!!

[Plucketeer]

31. The really disgusting thing is that it's not ABOUT the unborn.....

It's about pleasing God so that THEY go to Heaven. The kid's on it's own.

[Initech]

32. George Carlin said it best: "when you're pre born you're fine, when you're preschool you're fucked!"

[summer-hazz]

33. I have always thought

from the very beginning of the "Pro-Life fight

that it was a way to split the country, to disparage

women, and to make sure you voted Republican.

And it works... and will continue to in every election

from now to eternity..

Some of us see right thru this.. It's so very sad to see
it work so well for them.
Wonder how many Rwinger's have had, or paid for abortions?

[blkmusclmachine]

34. What else would you expect from the nutters?

FOR the unborn/Against EVERYONE ELSE!!

[Wounded Bear]

35. In the end....

Tough love always seems to emphasize the tough, not the love.

[wysimdnwyg]

36. I have actually had this discussion with a friend

He honestly believes that someone who cannot afford to support a child should not be allowed to have children. And then turns around and endorsed banning all abortions. Your picture describes his thoughts perfectly.

[Arkansas Granny]

38. I know people that believe the same.

They want to punish people who have abortions, but they don't want to provide decent sex education or birth control that would prevent unwanted pregnancies. Yeah, it's all about punishment and revenge.

[Little Star]

37. Exactly! k&r