The right wing myth is persistent, pervasive, and patently false: Republicans are the "party of life," while Democrats are “baby killers."
As with all the fake news coming from the right-wing propaganda mills, this toxic, weaponized lie doesn't just distort reality, it warps minds, incites violence, and just this past weekend in Minnesota, it left more bodies in its wake.
The latest dupe of deadly deception is Vance Boelter, whose violence targeting Democratic elected officials follows a grimly familiar script.
Boelter, described by a close friend as a passionate anti-abortion advocate and a supporter of America’s first convicted felon president, targeted members of the very party whose policies demonstrably reduce the abortion rate – as well as the need for abortion.
The irony is so thick it chokes anyone who has a clue. Boelter, consumed by the GOP's "baby killer" propaganda, lashed out at Democrats—the party that promotes policies that actually reduce the abortion rate.
Yep. One wouldn’t know it by watching the corporate media, and certainly not the half that’s pumping out Republican swill, but the truth is measured and calculated - abortion rates decrease under Democratic administrations. Policies focused on comprehensive healthcare, contraception access, economic support like the expanded Child Tax Credit, universal higher education, sex education, prenatal care, living wages, family leave, and retirement security – basically, the infrastructure of democracy and a decent middle-class life – actually reduce the abortion rate. In other words, every policy that Republicans rabidly oppose.
The other little ditty we never hear on corporate media is that abortion rates rise under Republican policies. In fact, since the corrupt and illegitimate Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortions in America have increased.
Criminalizing abortion does not reduce the abortion rate – all it does is sentence women to seek out dangerous procedures, bleeding out in parking lots or dying from preventable complications.
Republicans have deliberately created a national health crisis documented by Amnesty International and medical researchers alike, causing "extensive harm" and violating fundamental human rights.
This latest act of right-wing domestic terror isn’t an isolated incident perpetrated by one "nutter." It's the predictable outcome of decades of incendiary rhetoric painting Democrats as murderous villains. The lie is the tinder and the Republican echo chamber provides the spark.
From the murders of abortion providers like Dr. George Tiller to the violent attacks on clinics and now politically motivated assassinations, the thread connecting them is the relentless GOP lies about Democrats. At this point we should recognize that Republicans love abortions because their party creates so many of them. Or is it the needless suffering and trauma they inject into already traumatic situations? It’s sometimes hard to tell. The fact is, needless deaths and “deaths by despair” increase under Republican policies. As does the abortion rate, infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate. It’s an absolute disgrace.
Yet, Republicans continue to build their power on lies that activate the unstable, the rage-filled, the weak-minded who absorb the propaganda but reject the facts easily accessible with a simple Google search.
They hear "party of life" and vote against the very party actually living by that motto, blind to the staggering hypocrisy.
At this point, the Democratic Party should demand that any mention of "party of life" in regards to the Republican Party should immediately be accompanied by a laugh track. Their “pro-life” stance is just a grotesque facade that needs to be unapologetically called out whenever it’s repeated.
Here’s the facts about the so-called “Party of Life”:
Let’s count the ways GOP policies kill:
1. Higher Infant Mortality
Fact: Infant mortality is higher in those poorly-run Republican states. When Republicans take over state legislatures, infant deaths rise.
2. Soaring Maternal Mortality
Fact: Maternal deaths—especially for Black women—are highest in states with abortion bans and no Medicaid expansion.
3. Deaths of Despair
Fact: Suicide, overdose, and preventable deaths are higher in GOP-run states and counties.
4. Blocking Healthcare—Killing Americans
Fact: GOP refusal to expand Medicaid and attacks on the ACA kill tens of thousands every year.
5. Criminalizing Abortion = Dead Women
Fact: Criminalizing abortion doesn’t reduce abortions—they just make them unsafe and deadly. Women bleed out in parking lots. Doctors are forced to watch patients die rather than provide care. Women, families and society at large is further traumatized by the inhumanity of it all.
6. Child Poverty
Fact: Republicans blocked the expanded Child Tax Credit, throwing millions of children back into poverty. Jesus may have “loved the little children” but Republicans sure don’t.
7. COVID Deaths
Fact: After vaccines became available, excess death rates among Republicans were 76% higher than among Democrats. It’s only going to get worse with outright kooks in charge of DOH.
8. Widening Death Gap
Fact: The mortality gap between red and blue America is growing. Life expectancy is falling in Republican counties—but at least a trans person can’t pee in a public bathroom, right, MAGAts?
9. Attacks on Social Safety Nets
Fact: Republicans fight to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and Social Security, leaving the vulnerable to die from neglect and poverty, as usual. That’s the Republican “way.” Those tax cuts for the morbidly rich won’t pay for themselves, after all!
10. Inciting Violence
Fact: The GOP’s relentless demonization and lying about Democrats and abortion providers has fueled a wave of right-wing violence, from clinic bombings to assassinations.
In a sane world, Vance Boelter would’ve received the mental health care he needed while working to reduce abortions through proven, compassionate means that expand access to the infrastructure of freedom and democracy.. Instead, the GOP did what it’s been doing for decades—lying and dividing America. Republicans aren’t sincere partners in governance, as is evident by their incessant lies. Republicans couldn’t give a damn about babies, mothers or “life.” As evident in the fact they block every policy that actually cultivates it.
The Democratic Party is the “Party of Life”
The failure of Democrats to relentlessly hammer this truth is a catastrophic messaging disaster. Every time a Republican sanctimoniously invokes "life," the response must be immediate and unflinching: "Then why do you block universal healthcare? Why oppose living wages? Why gut prenatal care and the Child Tax Credit? Why support policies that increase abortion rates, infant deaths, and maternal mortality?" Stop ceding the language of "life." Declare unequivocally: The Democratic Party is the true party of life, freedom, and human dignity.
Why every American doesn’t know that the abortion rate has increased after the fall of Roe, is a testament to the failure of Democratic Party messaging.
The GOP is a death cult. Its policies kill women in back alleys and parking lots. They kill infants denied healthcare. They kill mothers abandoned after birth. They kill fathers, children, and seniors through neglect, poverty, and despair.
This is the legacy of a party of death. As is every act of domestic terror committed by Republicans like Vance Boelter.
It’s time to call their deadly charade what it is—murderous hypocrisy. It’s well past time to unapologetically claim the “pro-life” label. The fact is, anyone truly committed to reducing abortion, saving infants, supporting mothers, families and fostering actual life—anyone truly “pro-life” would vote Democratic.
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