This is a format I used to send to a mailing list of mine last year during the election that has since grown into a blog when I wanted to let numbers make a point for me.
Let me know what you think.
A little perspective on the Republican culture of life, by the numbers:
- Number of courts that have ruled in Terri Schiavo's parents favor.
- Number of lives at risk in the Terri Schiavo case.
- Number of people members of the First Family have killed.
- Number of US Senators voting on the law calling for Federal court review of Terri's case (51 are Required for a quorum, which effectively renders the law unconstitutional).
- Number of Florida State Senators threatened with their lives as a result of a recent vote on a Florida bill that would have made the removal of a feeding tube illegal without a living will.
- Number of Minnesota teenagers and educators who lost their lives in yesterday's school shooting
- Number of US service men and women killed in Iraq this month (29 including allies)
- Number of US prisoners who died while POWs in Vietnam.
- Number of prisoners who have died in US custody as captives in Iraq or Afghanistan.
- Number of prisoners executed in Texas while George W Bush was governor
- An incomplete counting of Iraqi dead (excluding insurgents) this month.
- Number of US war dead from the Iraq War.
18,000: Number of Americans who will
die this year due to lack of Universal Health coverage.
43,005: Number of
US traffic deaths in 2002 (last year information is available).
Draw your own conclusions.
This entry has been crossposted at Desert Rat Democrat