A large block of voters for the Space Nazi’s Orange Chia Pet made their choice because of their “pro-life” stance. So imagine their embarrassment over this (from the Courier Journal):

As a pediatric cardiologist, my specialty is treating children’s hearts, but as a pediatrician, I also recognize that surrounding each heart is a child. My job is to take care of both.

Part of my job includes having hard conversations with expecting families about their child’s abnormal heart, often trying to describe the complex heart diagnosis with a poorly drawn sketch on a sheet of printer paper. Through teary eyes and tissues in a claustrophobic exam room, I watch as plans for baby showers and nursery décor are quickly replaced by talk of heart surgery and hospital stays. 

When this diagnosis pulls the rug out from under these families, I hope to offer a soft landing place, a team of specialized pediatric providers to take care of these children as they undergo heart surgery — sometimes, in the first week of life.  

Many of these children will need access to specialized providers throughout their life to help them grow and thrive. Luckily, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — here in Kentucky, called KCHIP — serve as the backbone for caring for children with special health care needs, and approximately half of children I care for with heart disease rely on these programs for specialized care. 

Yet, right now these programs are at risk for sweeping cuts as Congress negotiates the budget. Any proposed funding cuts to Medicaid and CHIP would place these children at risk, and so many more in our state and across the country. 

That’s right. They voted for the person who would take health care away from the most vulnerable. Our children.

But I was being facetious. Pro-lifers never cared about children. They want domination over women’s bodies. Once kids are born, they’re on their own as far as the antiabortion crowd is concerned.