American Life League Uses the Death of Senator Ted Kennedy to Take Down Health Care Reform

[Photo source Lauren Miller]

The photo above was taken during the much talked about 9/12 rally in DC this past weekend. We have seen a great deal of hatred coming from those opposed to health care reform Barack Obama and the 9/12 rally just wouldn’t be everything we thought it would be without some gravely distasteful and downright hateful signage. Like the one above.

But this isn’t just your average homemade sign-o-hate (like the sign being held by the man standing behind him,) this is a special sign that does its best to hit us health care reform activists where it is still mourning and specially made and paid for by the anti-choice group American Life League. I, for one, have come to expect nothing more from these people who have proven again and again that they merely cannot have an opinion or work to spread the word about that opinion; no, they must have their opinion backed by often racist, sexist, misogynist, nonfactual, purposely hurtful, shameful and harmful images and/or wordage. We know that the American Life League knows no better, but to use the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, a man who dedicated his career to helping each and every person in this country obtain the health care that they deserve as citizens of a civilized country, to try to defeat health care reform is despicable. It blatantly disrespects the late Senator as well as his family, loved ones, as well as every American citizen who had worked with Senator Ted Kennedy and continues to work towards a universal health care or public option to be made available for citizens unable to obtain adequate health care.

But the American Life League did not just make these signs available for people to carry during the 9/12 rally; no, they are also selling the signs on their website.

Anti-choice extremism has interjected itself into the health care reform debate and you would think that Sarah Palin herself wrote the bullet points that the anti-choice extremists are attempting to capitalize on; according to anti-choicers against health care reform, health care reform is broken down into two points–death panels and taxpayer-funded abortion; both of which have been brought up to state legislatures as well as to the president himself and both of which have been said would not be part of health care reform. However, we also know that these are the only two points that anti-choicers have to pull out of their back pockets at a moment’s notice.

Don’t let the American Life League and its lemmings be the only voice of health care reform. Contact your members in Congress today, tell them that it’s about time that anti-choice extremism does not intimidate such important legislature that could save lives.

Update:

Here is a clip of the sign on Rachel Maddow (starts at 3:20)

Who else isn’t surprised that the American Life League refuses to defend their own sign?

h/t Blog for Choice