Pro-life, or pro-birth?

[Anonymous]

Came across this today, and thought it articulated my thoughts on the anti-abortion far-right very well.

?"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

- Sister Joan Chittister
Benedictine Nun

[Anonymous]

Very well stated. I too have found that the people who tend to be passionately "pro-life" are the least likely to support the social and health programs that are essential for many poor children to life with dignity and opportunity.

[Anonymous]

PP here, meant live, not life

[Anonymous]

I read an article about that recently and agree with her sentiments completely. That's great that anti-choicers want the babies to be born, but what are they going to do to support the lives of babies born in poverty, childcare for parents who need to work, or babies with special needs to parents who can't afford to care for them?

[Anonymous]

What to do about the elderly who have special needs? Kill them, of course. Oh wait. That's not ethical.

The idea that it is better to kill a baby than to expect the people responsible for creating them to actually care for them astounds me.

[Anonymous]

She better not let the Bishops overhear her. She'll be defrocked or something.... do they still burn heretics at the stake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What to do about the elderly who have special needs? Kill them, of course. Oh wait. That's not ethical.

The idea that it is better to kill a baby than to expect the people responsible for creating them to actually care for them astounds me.

Such expectations often don't conform to reality. Then who gets punished? The child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What to do about the elderly who have special needs? Kill them, of course. Oh wait. That's not ethical.

The idea that it is better to kill a baby than to expect the people responsible for creating them to actually care for them astounds me.

Such expectations often don't conform to reality. Then who gets punished? The child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What to do about the elderly who have special needs? Kill them, of course. Oh wait. That's not ethical.

The idea that it is better to kill a baby than to expect the people responsible for creating them to actually care for them astounds me.

Grow up. No one is killing babies. 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester.

Do you know that abortion has always been with humanity? That real, true infanticide used to be used when there were too many babies. You "pro life" people seriously have a missing compassion gene to make it harder and harder to get birth control, and, of course, you want abortion illegal, and then once it's born no help. None. My heart aches for terrible people like you, always with an eye to controlling women's sexuality, excuse me, "for the pwecious widdle babies" until they're actually born.