creating a culture of life — but what kind of life?

While driving back from San Antonio yesterday, we were listening to a song that had a line that went something like this: “What they need to understand is that life doesn’t end at birth.”

That really made me think about President Bush’s insistence that he’s committed to creating a culture of life … but that the Republicans, on the whole, are committed only to ensuring that as many babies as possible are born, without putting money behind initiatives that ensure that, once alive, those children have a good life.

Seems to me like maybe, just maybe, that’s the part that gets left out.