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Being “Pro-life” Is The Laziest Position Anyone Can Take
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The many ways a non-existent “person” costs one nothing to defend
Pro-control versus Pro-freedom
Being pro-life — if we are to assume we are talking solely about being anti-abortion — is to be willing to declare a moral superiority at no cost to the one who asserts it.
Declaring that an entity is a full human being entitled to rights, protection, and restrictive laws does not require for a person to actually do anything. Yes, a small minority of them carry signs, or harass providers and potentially pregnant women, but most “pro-life” people only mentally and emotional support only the idea of saving babies. Unborn babies.
The sound bites, and messaging is so wildly inaccurate and misleading, that they ultimately convey nothing but confusion. A heartbeat bill for a rice-grain sized clump with no heart, saying that grain can feel pain when there are no neuroreceptors for nociception (until 20 weeks), saying “abortion is murder,” but neglecting all other kinds of killers, such as poverty, war, disease, gun violence, and so forth, conveys that at the very foundation of it, being this kind of “pro-life” is much more about being pro-control.