From Amanda at Pandagon:
Anyway, the thing about this stupid “culture of life” phrase is not just the hypocrisy. I have also noticed that two values that BushCo likes to fling around are “life” and “freedom”, but I have also noticed that the two are opposite values in their rhetoric. You can have freedom or life, but not both. They are pretty consistent in this viewpoint, and if they evoke freedom, you can be sure they are covering up for someone’s death, and if they evoke “life”, you can be sure they are trying to take away your freedoms.
When I read that, it struck me as so brilliant that I blabbed about it to my whole family, plus my brother’s girlfriend (who happened to be there too). Me: “Amanda Marcotte had this brilliant observation that Bush uses “life” and “freedom” as antonyms!” My dad: “Amanda who?”