Thomas Friedman argued in a recent column that liberals should take the term "pro-life" back from conservatives as a way to win the abortion debate. He says being pro-life requires "respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth."
Friedman is fine with you killing your children as long as it's not where he can see it, but he is pro-life, he says, because he supports gun control, the EPA, and Head Start.
Huh?
Yes, that old canard again. You're not "pro-life" if you don't believe in top-down state control of every aspect of your life — except over your reproductive choices, of course. He praises NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg as "the most 'pro-life' politician in America" because of his bans on smoking and large sugary drinks and his support for gun control, "climate change" regulation, and early childhood education.
It doesn't matter that the ban on sugary drinks is largely illusory, that most "climate change" regulation would punish the poor more than anyone, or that neither early childhood education nor gun control works. He cares about everyone — except unborn children.
As I have argued before, most of our political debates are over how to help people. Everyone's heart is in the right place; we just disagree about what will actually work or what is necessary.
But the abortion debate is over whether it is OK to kill unborn human beings. There is no logical argument than can make anyone who says "yes" to that question "pro-life."
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100 % pro-life extends from conception to natural death.
I'd agree with what you say on the surface, but I suspect that needs to be fleshed out a bit.
I think most conservatives are 100% pro-life, but I'm guessing you'd disagree.
I'd like to say that "pro-choice" isn't "pro-abortion". Simply put there are more effective ways to prevent abortions than "laws". Lets have access to birth control, and educating people so they don't have babies they don't want or can't afford. "feed a man a fish he eats for one day. teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime".. Education is the key to decreasing abortions not laws. Interesting to me how many people don't "want government involvement" unless of course the government is going to force my neighbor to do what I think is morally correct. Theocracy is pretty popular for some, especially those in the middle east. I am pro-chioce I CHOOSE life every time. http://www.feminist.com/resources/ourbodies/abortion.html
Making abortion illegal wont stop abortions it will just make it illegal. Abortion is something that has gone on for centuries the only way to stop it is education not "prohibition", remember that moral law? Worked out well didn't it?
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