The Killers of the Right to Life

The New York Times reported on strides being made through unraveling the genetic mysteries of the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. I place the article here and its link below. A blogger expressed it well when he wrote of the tragedy that is the basis of the right wing assault on science and its desire to eliminate funding for most government programs that could serve the public good. Investigation into the cause of Alzheimer's, the topic of discussion in the NYT article, would be no exception if the wingnuts in the person of a Mitt Romney gain power. Government funding could and would be, in many cases, Inquisitionally guillotined.

A relative has, for ten years, been assaulted by this disease monstrosity. A strong woman once a children's music theater composer, writer of children's plays and puppet creator barely recognizes her own daughter now. It is spirit destroying both for the person who is unlucky enough to get the disease as well as for those who knew and loved her before its onslaught.

 Many right-wing bloviating ignoramuses (to use a George Will description of a certain Republican) in the person of the empty suit Romney could eliminate vital government- funded programs needed to investigate diseases such as Alzheimer's which eliminate the quality of life and slowly but surely kill its host. Those who care about fetuses but blindly court policies that would eradicate full term human beings are walking hypocrites and destroyers of the very life about which they claim to care so much.

We are staggered by the waste of our relative who could have spent many more years entertaining the children she did in her prior life. She is a different person now and not the one we knew. Her daughter's eyes are dry of the tears she has shed for her because hopelessness now rules the day.

Those who have the gift to understand science research keep using your gifts. We the people must NOT elect those whose policies would subvert government funding of the scientific research we need so much. If elected, those right wing extremists would create the new killing fields by eliminating the people’s partnership with government which strives to protect us all. We are, as John Kennedy said, all human and we are each of us mortal.