Actually, there may not be. Rights are, in part, what we decide as a society and it is not clear that the US has decided that health care is a right. Most civilized countries have, of course. Here’s what Santorum has to say about it:
Well, OK, then. He’s saying the government does not give us ANY rights. Rights come only from god. His god, to be exact.
Well, OK, then. I’m a Pastafarian, and His Noodly Rights include health care. The Fundies can stay out of this if they want.
Santorum was speaking to an audience of pouties at CPAC. Courtesy of Right Wing Watch. Watching the Right Wing so you don’t have to.
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And contraceptives are a sacrament! đŸ˜‰
Truly a thankless task.
Try an argument from parity:
* there is no right to roads
* there is no right to power
* there is no right to police protection
* there is no right to a standing armed forces
* there is no right to states’ rights
* there is no right to sovereignty
* there is no right to immigration control
What is the purpose of government? Could it be to enable and empower its earnest citizens to have access to food, shelter, protection, opportunity, healthcare? or is it to do this for only 1%, to provide infrastructure tools more rights that those of individual citizens. This is Democracy?
What yahoos like Santorum never understands is that government IS the people. He thinks is is against the people.
Now admittedly I’m a canadian but when the decleration said
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
That the right to health would then be an offshoot of the right to life…
Wait, so my rights come from god?
Remind me again where in the Bible god specifies my freedom of religion. Of press? Of speech? My right to bear arms? Speedy trial? Anything?
I didn’t think so.
Pope Calls Health Care An ‘Inalienable Right,’ Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage
This Santorum guy doesn’t even know his own religion.
I don’t think Santorum speaks to anyone I think he preaches. Sure seems like an evangelical sermon to me.
And you must admit, on the surface it seems like the government is against the people in some things it’s done over the last decade or so.
On another note:
Who’s standing behind him, the next Monica Lewinsky?