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7. I despise the label "pro-life."
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 05:52 AM
Oct 2020

Unless you are vegan and actively oppose the death penalty, you are NOT "pro-life" just because you oppose abortion or a woman's right to choose it. Unless you are for twenty years of state-guaranteed financial and medical care being provided for every unwanted baby being brought to term, you are not "pro-life."

All people like that are, is anti-choice: against a woman's right to choose abortion or not. If you did not want to become pregnant, and do not want to carry an unwanted fetus to term, the so-called "pro-life" crowd wants to take that choice from you. They do not give one whit about what happens to an unwanted child once it is born. They absolve themselves of all obligations to that child to provide food, health care, education or a stable family. They only want the right to prevent a pregnant woman from having the right to an abortion. HER life doesn't matter to them at all. That is pro-life? No. It is a very ugly concept, but calling it "pro-life" is as phony as a vegetarian sneaking into Ruth Criss and ordering a porterhouse, hoping no one notices.

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