Must read: Are you REALLY Pro-Life or just Pro-9months?

[blm]

This is a great read and I hope it is shared everywhere.

https://medium.com/@tracischmidley/are-you-really-pro-life-ab5c5acbb293

"….I hated to be that woman — that mess of a mom whose kids are out of control. One lady down the line shrugged her shoulders at me to say, “Hey, I get it. We have all been there.” But the couple immediately behind me had a different perspective. The man looked at the woman and said in a voice much too loud, “Some people should stop having kids.” Judging from her facial expressions and audible sighing and huffing, I can reasonably guess that she agreed with him.

Yes, I know how it looked. I was standing there by myself holding government free food coupons with 5 young children of two different races, and I myself look even younger than I am, which is young. I looked irresponsible. Nobody could know I was married, and that all foster children under the age of 5 receive WIC. Regardless of stereotypes and my appearance in that moment, my mind was absolutely blown when I saw the couple get into their vehicle that had a single bumper sticker on the back. The bumper sticker said — pro-life."

[randys1]

1. Cant be, rightwing anti Woman couple are also hypocrites? Nah.

BTW, aint no such thing as a pro life republican or GOP or conservative or teapartier.

Absolutely no fucking way, no how.

[blm]

2. Exactly!!!

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[Warpy]

3. It's nothing but old fashioned pro slut shaming

It's why they dehumanize women and loathe real, live children. It's why they never seem to shrink from telling the most transparent and outrageous lies. Their need to shame women for sex overrides everything else in their psyches.

[Matariki]

20. *bingo*

[merrily]

4. Unless someone is anti death penalty, anti-war and pro things like medicare for all, they are NOT

pro-life. They are anti-choice or anti-abortion, period. We must stop indulging this linguistic lie and we certainly must stop using it ourselves.

[blm]

5. That is the point made quite well in this article.

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[BeanMusical]

11. I always call them anti-choice.

And sometimes fascist weirdos.

[merrily]

14. Both seem accurate to me!

For me personally, abortion is not an option, but neither is forcing another human being into illness, misery, even death.

[BeanMusical]

15. +1

[Major Nikon]

6. Life has nothing to do with it.

Notice how the anti-death penalty movement within the right wing is nonexistent.

They are really pro-forced-birth.

[blm]

7. That didn't look as good on the bumper sticker.

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[JustAnotherGen]

8. Kick

It makes the point very well.

[smirkymonkey]

9. K&R

[LiberalElite]

10. I've always said pro-lifers are

all for you for the first nine months and after that you're on your own.

[hifiguy]

21. As George Carlin put it,

if you're pre-born, you're golden, if you're pre-school, you're fucked.

[LiberalElite]

22. He had a way with words - R.I.P. George nt

[malokvale77]

12. Reminds me of a story close to home.

Father of child refuses to pay for abortion.

Father of child refuses to pay child support, stating child not his.

DNA proves father of child. Father skips town.

State tracks father to garnish paycheck and tax returns.

State keeps money for services rendered. I'm looking at you Greg Abbott.


PS: This is not my story. Both my children were born in a church sanctified marriage (yuck).

[Skittles]

13. amazing, judging people in line at the store

you never know their story unless you actually talk to them

[Orrex]

16. Sadly, we see this exact kind of judgment on DU from time to time

Any time a thread comes up about buying soda with foodstamps, we see a parade of high-minded individuals righteously demanding to control the food choices made by other adults.

Nowhere in our society is there a shortage of anti-poor sentiment, not even here.

[Skittles]

17. I've seen it

the "kick the people while they're down" folk - it's a power thing - the less power they have in their own life, the more they think they can take it out on others they see as not up to their standards

f*** them - they're cowards

[KamaAina]

18. "Life begins at conception and ends at birth."

As we used to say about the anti's.

[Mc Mike]

19. Thanks, blm. Recced. nt.

[StevieM]

23. Republicans aren't just anti-adoption. They want EVERY SINGLE CHILD born out of wedlock given up for

adoption. If the woman doesn't have an abortion, and raises the child, they are furious with her too.

It sickens me that we live in a society that relentlessly refused to acknowledge the life-long grief often suffered by birth mothers.

[dae]

24. Pro-Life ends at birth,

after that baby and family are on their own.