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The right to LIFE and a Q cough drop
My first ever VUSOB: right to LIFE
First of all, what is life? In the case of people claiming to be “pro-life” it is unborn, human fetal life. And only that.
My first VUSOB, very unpopular strong opinion (view sob?) blog, then, concerns all of life.
Life is not a beach
To most people, life is something, well solely, human.
Life is not biology, our biosphere that creates life. It is not water, the source of most known life on our planet. Life is not the billion plus animals that died in Australia’s black summer burned alive as our charming year of 2020 began. Life is not the millions, drowning — right now as I type — in British Columbia where atmospheric rivers are still falling out of the sky and flooding everywhere except into human conscience. Much.
Life is not the one and a half million pets put to death in animals shelters every year.
My unpopular opinion today is that many of these things, and more, are more alive than a smaller than a grain of rice size clump of pre-fetal embryonic cells.