(Two things before I start this brief rant. A. I am so sorry for the title. Sometimes I just can't help myself. 2. I may have done a rant about this before but I am getting senile in my old age and cannot recommember so if you have read it before, move on with your day. If you haven't, then read on McDuff!)
So I have been hearing a lot from the Pro-Life groups recently. They are especially active and vocal now that the producers of the FAKED videos are being brought up on charges. Of course, in their magic world, it is all some sort of conspiracy to heap dirt on the "brave men and women who exposed Planned Parenthood." Kind of like all the Anti-Vaxx nutjobs who think all of the real science and evidence that proved the fake doctor in Europe wrong is a plot to besmirch his good name and hide the evils of Vaccination. You know...stupid. Well, it got me thinking (Again don't panic, it never lasts.) about exactly what they mean by Pro-Life?
I mean, Pro-Choice is easy. If you are Pro-Choice, you believe that women (Not old men in government) have the right to decide to have or not have an abortion. Well actually on a grander scale, Pro-Choice literally means that Women have the right to decide what is right for them whatever that may be without having that decision made by others, but that's picking nits.
Pro-Life SHOULD have an equally simple explanation. If you are Pro-Life then you should believe that all life deserves protection and support throughout life. However, when you hear most "Pro-Life" people talk, what they are actually saying is that they are "Pro-Fetus." They believe that all life is sacred as long as it is in the womb and that it should be protected from all forces that may damage it. Oh oh, except that most of these "Pro-Lifers" also believe that women should be alloweed to smoke, drink and poison themselves with prescription drugs while eating any danged thing they want. (Funny how that is). However once that puppy is squirted out of the womb, they are like the Lone Ranger and say, "My job here is done. HIYO SILVIA! AWAY!" After that, the kid can die from starvation or rat bites and they don't give a fugg.
So here is the questions I have asked many times before, but Conservatives never seem to want ot answer.
1. Do you support government-sponsored health care for the mothers you are forcing to carry the child to term, even if they have no way of paying for the necessary medical services?
2. If the answer to #1 is No, then do you support increasing Welfare funding to cover said costs?
3. If the answer to #1 and #2 is No, then you are not Pro-Life, you are Pro-Fetus.
(Okay technically number #3 wasn't a question. Moving on...)
4. Once said infant is pumped out of her loins,, do you...Well, see #1.
5. If the answer to #4 is No, see #2.
6. If the answer to #5 is No, see #3.
(Once again, 6 is not a question. Get over it already!)
7. Once the infant has miraculously survived to school age, do you support government-sponsored food programs to make sure they get enough to eat?
8. Do you support government sponsored efforts to pay for their schooling? IE books, clothes?
9. Do you support government sponsored health care for said school child so they remain healthy?
10. If the answers to 7, 8, 9 are no, see #2.
11 If the answer to number 10 is no see #3.
(Okay okay I know they aren't questions! QUIT YELLING AT ME!)
12. Finally and we shall condense this one down a bit. Once the school kid has somehow managed to college age, do you support government sponsored college tuition, government sponsored health care and government-sponsored food while they get their education?
13. If the answer to that question is no, then see #3.
So most Pro-Lifers don't give a damn about life. They just care that a fetus in the womb survives to birth even though it will not be cared for, fed or educated since the mother can't afford these things. So like I said, you are Pro-Fetus. Don't keep spreading the lie that you are Pro-Life.
Bingo.
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