I have recently made a lot of posts about abortion, I promise this is the last one about it. I’ve had this thought for awhile and it feels appropriate to say it now.
The basis of being pro-life is to protect life, that’s quite literally the name. It’s to protect kids, protect life of those who don’t have a choice. It seems strikingly odd to me that we don’t carry this basis to other things. People call themselves pro-life until the child is actually born. If you actually cared about the lives of children, we would have stricter gun laws. We would give psychology assessments before giving people guns, we would do background checks. We would do everything to fix the foster care system, which is incredibly dated and ineffective. We would protect the kids who were separated from their families at the border, in fact we wouldn’t separate them at all because that in and of itself is going against the basis of pro-life thinking.
Being pro-life is more than just abortion, and not realizing that it isn’t just about abortion is just plain ignorant. If you were actually pro-life, you would protect ALL kids, born and unborn alike. Using this as a basis to back your own beliefs and not making it transversal to all childrens issues, does not make you “pro-life”, it makes you anti-abortion.
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