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| Wed, 09-08-2004 - 12:49am |
Today I was leaving school, walking thru the parking lot and talking to my friend Kristi on the phone, when I passed a car that was covered with anti-abortion stickers all over the rear window, so much that it there was only a square foot space for the driver to see through, (So I asked myself how pro life that person could really be since traffic fatalities did not seem to mean a thing to him, and it was indeed a him, because i saw him driving later on today)
FIRST THING FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PRO LIFE LIBERAL!!!!
My friend Kristi, who I was talking ot on the phone as I walked by is a social worker. I told her about this car and she said something that I found to be very thoughtful and I wanted to share it with anyone who is a real pro lifer. She said, "If those people are so pro life, why don't they become foster parents? Or volunteer in the big brothers big sisters program? Or donate money or time to teen parenting aide programs, or teen sex education? If a person is really pro life, why stop with the unborn, it seems hypocritical..." I thought what she said made a whole lot of sense. Being a pro life liberal, it made me examine my own life, and what I am doing to support life that already exists.
And that, to keep on topic with this board, made me ask which party is helping more with these lives that exist already? obviously none of them are going to outlaw abortion, but, who is more willing to help these kids when they are born?
FIRST THING FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PRO LIFE LIBERAL!!!!
My friend Kristi, who I was talking ot on the phone as I walked by is a social worker. I told her about this car and she said something that I found to be very thoughtful and I wanted to share it with anyone who is a real pro lifer. She said, "If those people are so pro life, why don't they become foster parents? Or volunteer in the big brothers big sisters program? Or donate money or time to teen parenting aide programs, or teen sex education? If a person is really pro life, why stop with the unborn, it seems hypocritical..." I thought what she said made a whole lot of sense. Being a pro life liberal, it made me examine my own life, and what I am doing to support life that already exists.
And that, to keep on topic with this board, made me ask which party is helping more with these lives that exist already? obviously none of them are going to outlaw abortion, but, who is more willing to help these kids when they are born?

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This should be the question that all pro life advocates must ask themselves, but then they'd have to ask why they support the death penalty and why they support a pre-emptive war.
BTW I too am pro life, but I'm a fiscal conservative and a somewhat social liberal.
C
A fetus is an innocent person.
A convicted murderer is a guilty one.
How does she know they don't? Talk about jumping to conclusions .... this is someone you only saw driving in a car for God's sake, you don't know the first thing about him. I know PLENTY of pro-life people who do everything you mentioned above and then some.
On the other hand, as one pro-life friend of mine said, "Just because I'm pro-life doesn't mean I'm responsible for other people's irresponsibility."
Bev
Edited 9/8/2004 9:17 am ET ET by bgs3
Edited 9/8/2004 9:18 am ET ET by bgs3
My response has always been, don't want an abortion? Then don't have one.
It is my response too. They have no right to push and legislate their opinions on others.
A fetus is an innocent person.
A convicted murderer is a guilty one."
As we all know by now, many convicted murderers are actually innocent. In fact, some have actually been murdered (especially in Texas, the land of the "legal" murderers) before DNA evidence came around. If you can justify killing innocent people just to kill a guilty one that is truly sick. Even if there are 10 murderers and one innocent person, you should never make the mistake of killing.
And we all know that the death penalty does nothing to inhibit people from killing anyway. It just costs tax payers a lot of money in legal fees.
And a fetus is not an "innocent person." It is attached to the mother. They are connected. Anything the mother does affects the fetus. What are we going to do, lock all pregnant women up to make sure they eat the right diet, don't smoke or drink? Where do you draw the line? Frankly, a woman can do whatever she wants with her own body.
I am pro life for myself. But in all honesty if I'd gotten pregnant at say, 19, I may very well have had an abortion. It was not having babies that changed my mind either. I don't condemn others that do it. I have a numner of close friends who have had abortions, some feel bad some don't. I don't really ask them about it, it is their business not mine.
If you outlaw abortion and the above you are left with a society of homeless people. Especially in this atmosphere of high unemployment, explosive deficit and cuts to public services.
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