If one wanted to illustrate the moral cesspool that is the partnership of right wing christianity and the Republican party, on could do no better than remind voters of recent Republican history.
This was a case where Repubs suddenly found FEDERAL GOVERNMENT intervention to prevent someone from dying to be supremely important.
So important that the President of the US flew back to Washington, emergency sessions of Congress were called, lawsuits were taken to the US Supreme Court multiple times.
As nearly as I can understand, it must be because Ms. Schaive was brain dead.
Wikipedia has a summary here.