Pro-Life, Ya’ll

If you are pro-life, you have a responsibility. That’s what pro-choicers (the dumb kind) say. If you ever–and I mean EVER–advise a girl against abortion, you are now required to adopt that child or, if she decides to keep her baby, support it for the rest of its life.

This information coming to me from various pro-choicers on LiveJournal who insist that pro-lifers simply don’t care about non-fetuses. No really: they think we hate non-fetuses! No wonder I don’t have any non-fetus friends! It’s all coming together! That’s why the conversations are so quiet at Shari’s! Not to belabor the obvious, but if we didn’t care about non-fetuses, how could out children survive into adolescents?

One individual told me that I must adopt every child that I personally have “saved” from abortion. But then another individual said that I (and pro-lifers everywhere) must take care of ALL of the born children in order to prove that yes we do care! So we need to shut down every pro-life organization and keep quiet on the issue until we can pool the resources to save all of the children of the world and make sure they get through University.

And what do the pro-choice organizations do when the woman decides to have a child? Sure, if she wants to abort, they’ll drive her to a clinic, get taxpayers to pay for it, even, in certain cases, cover up the fact that she is a victim of statutory rape! What do they do for the woman who chooses to keep her baby? (Remember, kids, they’re pro-choice: ALL OF THE CHOICES!) What about the girl who chooses to adopt? An adoption referral? What about these “scholarships” that pro-lifers are supposed to be dishing out to both babies born from our evil guilt mongering and also to their mothers? Do they offer a “You weren’t aborted!” scholarship, or is that just supposed to be a pro-life thing too?

Thankfully I know that the pro-choicers who read my journal know that pro-lifers do, indeed, care about born children, just as I in all reality observe that they too also care for children and are not all blood thirsty fetus-haters. Except the sad reality is that my side’s organizations help born children, while their side’s organizations don’t. Unless by “children” you mean “teenagers” and “help” mean “pass out birth control”, “sneak behind their parents back for a surgery”, etc.

It’s like when you bring up the fact that we have homes for pregnant girls who are choosing to birth their babies. (Note: that means that these babies will be born at some point, and cease to be fetuses!) It might come as a shock to some pro-aborts that we don’t kick the woman out the moment after she gives birth. “Whew! We tricked her into having her baby! Now let’s kick her out and start the process again!” In fact, I have never visted a home for such women where there was any kind of time limit at all. Some of the more smart pro-choicers will denounce these homes as houses of Religion which will force women to adopt a terrifying religion, such as Christianity. OK, but what does the pro-choice movement have? Where are NARAL’s secular homes for young women? Anyone? Is this thing on? Class dismissed.

Perhaps this argument reeking of retardation grates me especially because I know how helpess I sometimes feel when it comes to helping women who need it, and for especially helping their children, all the while balancing a respect for life and the principle that it’s never OK to slaughter your child. I know someone who has just joined a pro-life organization which exists for the sole purpose of helping women through their pregnancies and thereafter. Hell, even though I don’t ever think abortion is OK, and even though I sometimes take my rhetorical anger out on women who are getting pregnant while not being willing to have a child, I realize that helping women is the most important thing that the pro-life movement does. Believe it or not, when we try to talk a woman out of killing her baby, we offer her things other than “youshouldn’tkillyourbabyhaveaniceday.”

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