While watching Real Time with Bill Maher this week, panelist Gloria Steinem offered up a great line: For conservatives, life begins at conception and ends at birth! In my experience, I find this line to be oh so true.
While the fetus is in the womb, so-called pro-lifers will stop at nothing to protect this wondrous "life" waiting to pop out into the world. Unfortunately, the moment it does pop out, it seems that all bets are off. The fetus that stoked so much love and affection is now completely on its own.
Too often, the very people who oppose abortion are the very same people who are pro-death penalty and pro-war. Many of them oppose so-called "entitlements," the minimum wage, collective bargaining, well-funded public education and almost any other program or initiative that conceivably could help that baby grow into a thriving adult.
If you ask me, that is simply crazy thinking. It is illogical and irrational. It's like spending your time watching a cake bake in the oven, salivating at the chance to bite into it. Yet, once it is ready to be eaten, you toss it into the trash and, instead, hurry down the street to watch another cake bake in a different oven.
While the fetus is in the womb, so-called pro-lifers will stop at nothing to protect this wondrous "life" waiting to pop out into the world. Unfortunately, the moment it does pop out, it seems that all bets are off. The fetus that stoked so much love and affection is now completely on its own.
Too often, the very people who oppose abortion are the very same people who are pro-death penalty and pro-war. Many of them oppose so-called "entitlements," the minimum wage, collective bargaining, well-funded public education and almost any other program or initiative that conceivably could help that baby grow into a thriving adult.
If you ask me, that is simply crazy thinking. It is illogical and irrational. It's like spending your time watching a cake bake in the oven, salivating at the chance to bite into it. Yet, once it is ready to be eaten, you toss it into the trash and, instead, hurry down the street to watch another cake bake in a different oven.
I agree.
ReplyDeleteI've known people with these views who think that public "entitlements" should be replaced by private charities/donations.
It is how disadvantaged people were looked after historically but from what I've read it wasn't as stable as our current system. Something as vital as education, healthcare or a safe working environment should not be left to the whims of whoever is in charge.
To be fair to people who are pro-life, I do have hardcore pro-life friends who are committed to helping pregnant women who want to continue their pregnancies get access to stuff like baby clothing or a secondhand crib.
What really seems to be lacking is support once that baby becomes a toddler or child. None of the programs or people I know with this agenda have much of anything to offer in the long-term.
I wonder why that is? Keeping a child fed and clothed grows more, not less, expensive over time.
And of course, this human life is mostly worthless anyways. It's a sort of test or something.
ReplyDeleteReal life starts after we die, in Heaven.
These people are weird. Scary the power they hold.
Those who follow the way will long and fruitful lives. Those who are wicked and willful, will soon pass away, as will their offspring.
ReplyDeletePerhaps our friends practice the way through with the following in mind: "You win the world by letting alone" [57]