The Irony of the "Pro-Life" Crowd
Now, a quick disclaimer before I begin. I myself could be considered “pro-life”–I’m personally against abortion. However, I feel women can be trusted with their own bodies and outlawing it is a violation of their freedoms, and that we should be focusing on the plights of those who are already in this world. That being said…
The “pro-life” crowd is sickeningly hypocritical. I’m not talking about all “pro-life” supporters, but rather the bulk of the crowd. The Christian, right wing, middle or upper class group that feels they are morally superior for opposing abortion and that liberals who support the right to abortion are the ones I’m talking about. These are the same people, remember, who oppose universal healthcare, give the wealthy giant tax breaks while taxing the poor, practice the racism that keeps minorities in poor situations, and would rather spend billions of dollars killing innocent people in the Middle East than saving lives back here. These are the people who are partly responsible for pushing mothers into situations where they can’t provide for a baby–and teaching children abstinence only classes, keeping vital information about birth control away from them. Pro-life crowd? Why don’t you focus on the lives of the people already living before you start a crusade against women’s freedom. Let’s start with bringing the troops home and spending those several billion dollars on universal healthcare, better education, and better police funding. Seems to me that would be a hell of a lot more valuable.
Sorry for the short post today. Still celebrating. :)
Hear, hear!!! I don’t favor abortions but I am pro-choice.
I agree we all you said. We should focus on the living. Where are all the pre-natal and pre-K and after school programs for the living? People who are pro-choice don’t fight for children that are living. Yet many have no problem with the death penalty and the murder of people in the Middle East. Sad and hypocritical! :?:
Paulette
A human is only a “life” until they are born, afterwards they’re just poor, in jail, or getting in the way of our oil.
This is why I specifically refuse to refer to them as pro life, I call them pro bith. TO be pro life would mean affirming the value of life and passing policies to make it easier for those of us that are already here. You cannot claim to support life while agreeing with the racist death penalty, not funding education properly, not having socialized health care or day care etc and etc. The list goes on and on. It seems these people are more concerned with telling people what to do with their lives and exercising power than actually celebrating something as valuable as life.