You attempt to separate the issue of life and care of that life once it is born.
It can't be done.
Life cannot be sacred in the womb, then left to fend for itself once it takes a breath.
You need to learn about Cardinal Bernadin's Seamless Garment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_life_ethic
(The only people getting generous benefits from the government are those who are double and triple dipping retirement benefits, such as, politicians who have held different offices, then collect from each, or military service members who go into politics and collect from both.
If you fit one of these catagories, you're right, you're swimming in cash.)
As someone who was raised Catholic and agrees with much of Catholic social teaching, I don't get this idea of right to life. I understand it means no abortions, but doesn't it also mean that we deal with the issues that sometimes lead to abortions such as poverty, inadequate education, and inrquality. For example, if someone is barely getting by having to suffer their whole life because they do not have enough to eat or cannot get medical care, don't they have a right to life. Thus the right to life issue is just as much economic as social. Let us not forget that abortions are oftens affects of largers causes that are not taken care off. We could outlaw abortion, but most likely they would go on underground because we have not dealt with the underlying causes.
I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to put together such a thorough argument against the current candidate's positions. As you say, he can believe what he wants, but he certainly cannot claim that he is following Jesus' teachings.
I encourage you to get this essay out there as many places as you can. Send it to newspapers, networks, internet news sites. We need more voices like yours if we are to prevent this catastrophe from making it to the White House.
That doesn't have to be the question. If the US switched to a single-payer system, it would have far more leeway to control the cost of health care. And some of the money saved could go into educating and encouraging people to take better preventative care of themselves, since you're correct that that would be less expensive still.
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