Is the "pro-life" community really pro-life?

[perdita9]

My letter to the editor ran in today's issue of The Morning Call: Where are "pro-life" voices on deadly administration?

The following actions all have two things in common. Can you guess what they are?

The Trump Administration cut 83% of U. S. Agency for International programs which distribute medicine and food to vulnerable communities. By 2030, the cuts are expected to result in 14 million deaths.

Between Sept. 2nd and Oct. 26th, the Trump Administration has killed at least 43 people in strikes on Venezuelan boats in international waters. No evidence of illegal narcotic trafficking has been presented as justification for these attacks and no due process has been extended to the sailors.

Director of Health & Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has fired 20,000 employees and cut billions of dollars from services to inspect restaurants and monitor wastewater and from programs to prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer and infectious diseases like tuberculosis and HIV.
So, what do these three actions have in common?

First, the “pro-life” community has not risen up en masse to protest any of them and second, each action received significantly less coverage from some media outlets than that time President Obama wore a tan suit to a press conference.


https://www.mcall.com/2025/11/02/letters-how-east-penn-could-realign-its-schools-without-spending-a-fortune/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Very good letter. Keep going. . . . nt

[WarGamer]

2. anti abortion does not equal pro life. Far from it.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

4. Ayup.

They’re PRO BIRTH, not pro life. They don’t give a fuck what happens once a child is born.

The other side of the issue is that they’re also anti woman because they’re disgusting control freaks who are insecure in their masculinity.

[canetoad]

3. Not at all

They are pro-subjugate women and if that means a few extra children, so be it. If the kids survive the efforts of the H&HS sec, that is.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Excellent letter. Kick.

[yourout]

6. Pro birth.... Not remotely pro life.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. "righteous killings" are fine by them

[IcyPeas]

8. It's just a scam they use to squeeze money from duped evangelicals come election time.

They don't care about abortion... they just want your donation.

They obviously don't care about school shootings.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. Never has been

Their movement has always been full of contradictions: Anti-Abortion but Pro-Death Penalty, Anti-Abortion but does not support increased access to contraception, increased social supports such as childcare subsidies, etc. just to name a couple.

[Ping Tung]

10. No. They are pro pregnancy and anti-women hypocrites

[SamKnause]

11. They are pro zygote.

They are pro embryo.

They are pro fetus.

They are pro death penalty.


They hate the thought of women having sex unless a child is the result.

They are anti children and children's programs.

They are anti women having rights or medical choices.


They are the party of death and destruction and they use their religious books to justify their hate.

[SocialDemocrat61]

12. They are not pro-life

They are anti-woman

[Johonny]

13. Its always been misogyny disguised as a cause

It has never been anything but hatred toward women.

[CTyankee]

14. I would like to add another conclusion I have come to.

Many are part of what I call the "religiously insane." My "diagnosis" (I'm not a psychiatrist) is that these people view this life as a means to get to heaven. That is their goal. I think they live miserable lives cuz they eventually learn that they ain't gonna make it to heaven.

There is no rational argument you can use with them. They smile serenely at your attempts. They are in their own little world and that is that.

I don't waste any more time on them. If I have business to do with them I do it and TYVM.

[themaguffin]

15. No, and that term should NEVER be used for anti-life conservatives. Never.

[CTyankee]

16. Go through their anti-life positions and then ask them if they are familiar with the Sermon on the Mount.

Who did Jesus call "blessed"?

Then, just leave it there. Watch them become defensive and try to frame who Jesus said were blessed.

If they proclaim themselves as "Christian" they might try to "interpret" that Sermon to fit what they practice, just tell them it's what Jesus said according to the Bible and there don't appear to be any further explanations or footnotes, at least not in my copy of the King James Version (my father's Mason's bible when he was formally inducted as a Mason).

And, btw, did Jesus say anything about abortion?

[csusan]

17. NO

When I escorted at an abortion clinic in my home town, we called them "forced birthers". A much more appropriate name than prolife. Nothing about them is prolife.

[hunter]

18. How are the people they hate going to die if they haven't lived first?

It's god's will.

( They worship a cruel and capricious god. )