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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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Many of them do, including myself (I donate both time and money to my local women's shelter and through the Catholic Church help programs that support unwed mothers who choose not to abort, both financially and emotionally). But do I have to be volunteering my time with juvenile delinquents in order to be against crime? Is every person who is opposed to the war in Iraq a hypocrite if they are not right there on the front lines acting as human shields? Since someone may not have the resources to take care of other people's children, they ought to be in favor of those people killing their children? I don't really buy that line of reasoning.
I believe both sides are willing to help these kids, they just differ in their view of the best ways to help them. Liberals believe that unwanted kids are best helped by government welfare programs, while conservatives believe that encouraging economic development and allowing people to keep more of their own money, also demanding accountability in our public schools to insure greater success, is a better way to insure that the parents of these children are more willing and able to care for them. I can't speak for all Republicans but personally I believe the solution to unwanted children lies not in providing free and easy access to abortion, but in creating conditions in which these children ARE wanted and ARE cared for.
I don't support the death penalty, and I support the war in Iraq because I believe it will ultimately result in many more lives saved than lives lost.
To a person who believes an unborn child is a human being, that response makes no more sense than "Don't wan't your children? Go ahead and kill them."
An abortion costs more than a year or two of birth control, so if you're arguing that abortion is necessary because poor people can't afford birth control, that argument really doesn't fly.
I also am pro-life, against death penalty, and for the war in Iraq. For the exact same reasons: It will save more lives than it costs.
Carrie
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