Forced Pregnancy Movement
June 19, 2014
Let's call a spade a spade and stop granting the right-wing, evangelical, misogynists their self-preferred, and totally erroneous, title of "pro life."
You can't claim "pro life" if you spend time, money, and energy fighting to prevent people from getting life-saving medical care resulting in thousands of deaths each year.
You can't claim "pro life" when you actively try to eliminate one of the best, proven methods of preventing unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions: fact-based sex education in schools.
You can't claim "pro life" when you campaign against allowing women
access to the most significant abortion prevention option: contraceptives.
You can't claim "pro life" if you don't work to provide pre-natal care for women so they can deliver healthy babies.
You can't claim "pro life" if you argue against paid family medical leave that allows parents to care for their children when they're newborns, sick, or injured.
You can't claim "pro life" if you advocate cutting programs to feed, clothe, house, and educate those children you force into this world.
You can't claim "pro life" if you justify laws that prevent same-sex couples from adopting the children you forced into the world then abandoned, preventing them from having a stable home because (and only because) homosexuality squicks you out.
You can't claim "pro life" if you don't support realistic minimum-wage laws that would eliminate the oxymoron "working poor" -- poverty kills.
You can't claim "pro life" if you refuse to take action to prevent the slaughter of children and other innocents and keep it legal for any idiot, criminal, and nut job to carry automatic weapons and enough ammunition to take out a municipal police force into schools, theaters, restaurants, etc.
You can't claim "pro life" if you promote "Stand Your Ground," police brutality, urban warfare, rape culture, and trans hatred -- all of which cost people their lives.
You can't claim "pro life" if you favor the death penalty.
In short, you can't claim "pro life" if the only thing you do to "protect" life is use lies, outrageous and unnecessary procedures, and inappropriate clinic-closing regulations to stop women from terminating pregnancy ... even when it means their lives are at risk, even if the fathers are rapists, even if they're brain dead, even if the fetuses probably won't survive.
If that's all you do you, aren't "pro life," you're a hypocrite who is part of the forced-pregnancy movement which only has the one goal of coercing women to deliver babies, babies you don't give a rat's ass about once they're born.
So, if you're pro-choice, pro-women, pro-freedom please stop using the term "pro-life" to describe members of the forced-pregnancy movement.
You can't claim "pro life" if you spend time, money, and energy fighting to prevent people from getting life-saving medical care resulting in thousands of deaths each year.
You can't claim "pro life" when you actively try to eliminate one of the best, proven methods of preventing unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions: fact-based sex education in schools.
You can't claim "pro life" when you campaign against allowing women
access to the most significant abortion prevention option: contraceptives.
You can't claim "pro life" if you don't work to provide pre-natal care for women so they can deliver healthy babies.
You can't claim "pro life" if you argue against paid family medical leave that allows parents to care for their children when they're newborns, sick, or injured.
You can't claim "pro life" if you advocate cutting programs to feed, clothe, house, and educate those children you force into this world.
You can't claim "pro life" if you justify laws that prevent same-sex couples from adopting the children you forced into the world then abandoned, preventing them from having a stable home because (and only because) homosexuality squicks you out.
You can't claim "pro life" if you don't support realistic minimum-wage laws that would eliminate the oxymoron "working poor" -- poverty kills.
You can't claim "pro life" if you refuse to take action to prevent the slaughter of children and other innocents and keep it legal for any idiot, criminal, and nut job to carry automatic weapons and enough ammunition to take out a municipal police force into schools, theaters, restaurants, etc.
You can't claim "pro life" if you promote "Stand Your Ground," police brutality, urban warfare, rape culture, and trans hatred -- all of which cost people their lives.
You can't claim "pro life" if you favor the death penalty.
In short, you can't claim "pro life" if the only thing you do to "protect" life is use lies, outrageous and unnecessary procedures, and inappropriate clinic-closing regulations to stop women from terminating pregnancy ... even when it means their lives are at risk, even if the fathers are rapists, even if they're brain dead, even if the fetuses probably won't survive.
If that's all you do you, aren't "pro life," you're a hypocrite who is part of the forced-pregnancy movement which only has the one goal of coercing women to deliver babies, babies you don't give a rat's ass about once they're born.
So, if you're pro-choice, pro-women, pro-freedom please stop using the term "pro-life" to describe members of the forced-pregnancy movement.