“Pro-Lifers”Peak Hypocrisy

“Pro-Lifers”Peak Hypocrisy

How this stance isn’t backed up by action, or scripture

Ah the old “Pro-Life” argument, it’s one I’ve heard throughout my entire life. When I was young and brainwashed in church I thought it made perfect sense, I mean who would want to kill babies? Only the most despicable bastards would be ok with that stance!

But the argument being made by mostly the conservative right is super disingenuous, and it’s a stance that politicians take just to sway those who lack critical thinking skills for the most part.

There’s also a huge amount of cognitive dissonance that comes into focus when you analyze the other policies that these people also support. You are “pro-life” ok, so let’s give free healthcare pre-natal and post-natal to these pregnant women, as well as free healthcare to the babies regardless of income range? Even some developing nations offer this to people regardless of citizenship.

Is that fine with you? Nope! That’s socialism!…ok then, so you want society to mandate that these babies are born, but don’t want society to foot the bill for any of the costs of them being born…hmm well what about society-funded daycare or schools? Nope! Socialism again! In fact, we’ll push to have public education funding cut as well!

Besides cutting access to abortions, they’ve taken aim at plan B pills, and there’s even talk about targeting contraceptives. These same conservatives are the ones who will cut funding or restrict access to food stamps, free lunches at public schools, and Medicaid.

So you want them born but medically and nutritionally neglected, and as ignorant as we can make them…great!

In addition to this, I hear an overwhelming silence when it comes to children being mistreated at the southern border, or women being forcefully sterilized.

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Wooten alleged that the doctor performing these procedures, who was subsequently named as gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin, had become notorious for performing these operations — so much so that she called him the “uterus collector” in her whistleblower account.

statedThe Guardian

So if you’re “pro-life” you’re against other U.S. citizens being able to control their own bodies, and whether they have a baby or not, but you’re perfectly fine given your silence and voting record, on immigrant women being permanently prevented from reproducing. I guess if a person isn’t from the U.S. then they’re sub-human? Are we getting into some form of moronic eugenics now? Is the goal here just to force more Caucasian babies onto the scene?

Is this why we’re seeing weird pseudo-cults like the Quiverfull folk sprouting up that shun birth control? Are these whites scared of Latinos who are mostly Catholic, and thus often against birth control, out reproducing them? This does seem to be at least part of the case if you listen to the Christian Broadcasting Network’s rants about the “invasion” at the border. Making it sound like a military action rather than people who have been displaced due to U.S. foreign policy.

CBN purposely misses the fact that the country has always been made up of immigrants, and is just using them as a scapegoat while trying to shape U.S. policy. They ignore that many of the jobs the immigrants desire to do are jobs that typical U.S. citizens refuse to do and that immigrants contribute to the economy to the tune of billions of dollars a year.

Beyond not caring about any babies born having access to healthcare, education, or food they also don’t care about their safety, given the conservative silence around any gun reform policies. With gun deaths being the number one cause of death of children in the U.S.A.

Also, what about all of the children already in foster care? You don’t see these Pro-Lifers battling each other to try to take in any of the average 400,000 children currently in the foster care system, most of whom end up having traumatic childhoods due to being tossed between foster families until they age out of the system.

With all of the policy stances we’ve seen cropping up across the U.S., we see that pro-lifers want babies born, at least to U.S. citizens, whether they are the product of incest, rape, or even a severe risk to the life of the mother. With women who have suffered miscarriages even possibly facing criminal charges in some cases.

What makes forced birthers, the real name the “pro-lifers” should adopt, in favor of life? Nothing from what I can tell, they don’t support anything beyond forcing a baby into the world. Statistically, this practice will just end up putting more financial strain on people who were already barely making it. There will be way more children born to families who can’t handle them, so more will end up in the foster system, and others will just go neglected. All of these factors will increase crime across the country. But that in turn will increase prison populations, which will give the corporations more slave labor, so maybe that is part of their end game.

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But doesn’t God want babies to be born? Most of these people are Christians after all, and cite the Bible as the source of why abortions are wrong. The issue here, which I’ve mentioned before in other articles, is that most Christians have no clue what the Bible actually says. They just know what pastors tell them on Sunday mornings, and those sermons mostly seem to be concocted by repeating a bunch of Christian myths that have no Biblical merit while waving a Bible around.

What does the Bible say about abortion? The main verse Christians will cite is Jeremiah 1:1

Jeremiah 1 1"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

In this verse though God is specifically talking about Jeremiah, if we look at the rest of the context of the Old Testament God couldn’t give two shits about any other races than the Israelites, and Jeremiah was particularly special for him.

So what Biblical evidence is there that the god of the Old Testament couldn’t give a shit about unborn children?

So here we have two examples, one of god telling the Israelites to go commit genocide on Amalek, the other of god removing his protection from Samaria and letting the Assyrians destroy all of the Israelites there. So…how do we interpret this in a “pro-life” sense? I’ll leave those mental gymnastics to the Christians.

Other major examples from the Bible of course are the great flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, and the plagues of Egypt where he specifically sends the angel of death to kill all the firstborn. Thus punishing the Egyptians by killing their children. Honestly, the god of the Old Testament often turns to killing children, even punishing David for his adultery by killing the baby that he and Bathsheba had.