Reproductive Rights and The Golden Rule

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http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/tina-dupuy/53833/reproductive-rights-and-the-golden-rule

Reproductive Rights and The Golden Rule
Conservatives and the Right | Gender Equality
by Tina Dupuy | January 24, 2014 - 11:04am

When our government was framed, religion was granted freedom in hopes it would return the favor. Call it the Great American Gamble. Give something authoritative in nature free rein and have faith it won’t take over.

Here’s the primary debate of a free country: When does my freedom trample on your civil liberties? And when do your rights impede my independence? When does my opinion about the way you live your life become the way you have to live your life? Religion is opinion after all. Liberal Christians believe Jesus was a dark-skinned blue-collar hippie and conservative Christians think Jesus hated hippies and loved guns. (I’m exaggerating but only slightly … save your letters.)

What you don’t hear are Christians of any ideology saying, “Jesus said this, but I disagree…” If Christ isn’t reputed to have said it, his followers just forge his signature. See: homosexuality, interracial marriage and Charles Darwin.

This is how conservatives who believe themselves to be Christian have decided life ends at birth. That is not a typo. Anti-abortion activists are not for programs which would make raising an unplanned child easier. Anti-abortion activists are not pro-welfare programs. Anti-abortion activists are not pro-school lunches. They’re not pro-food stamps, pro-funding foster care or pro-taking-care-of-children-after-they’re-born. Economics is the leading reason for ending a pregnancy. But the anti-abortion activists are laser focused on life until it becomes viable—then that “life” becomes a lazy taker and part of the 47 percent “who believe that they are entitled to health care.”

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1. +1

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2. Word.

K & R

[niyad]

3. sad, but true