When someone tells you they are pro-life, they aren't trying to make a statement about themselves, they are passive aggressively commenting on others. Have you ever met a sane adult who is anti-life/pro-death? If you support the legality of abortions this is what is being implied about YOU every time someone calls them self "pro-life".
Abortion is a very serious issue. Adults cannot discuss serious matters when framed in a intellectually dishonest manner. According to polls on Sean Hannity's website if you call yourself "pro-life" you probably also support capital punishment. I would say there a good chance you love the military as well. Many would call you a hypocrite but you are not. You did however allow us to have a conversation about abortion without talking about abortion. Thanks!
No one likes abortions. Everyone likes life.
Pro-Life=Bullshit
As you may know republicans are in the process of defunding planned parent hood. You also may know that while democrats love to spend money on things that don't work republicans love to cut spending on things that do.
Planed parenthood works, especially for "pro-lifers". Why? Well I'm going to make some more assumptions about "pro-lifers". They probably don't talk to their children about sex other then to tell them its bad/evil or its only for married people. This works great on an Amish commune. I don't live there. If your reading this, neither do you. Maybe you should prepare your child for reality since that's where you live. It's your disconnection from reality that creates the void that planned parenthood fills. They provide education and contraceptives/birth control and other medical services that could not be acquired otherwise because of money or embarrassment.
Against abortions+Against birth control+Not living in a commune=Madness
Madness=More Abortions
If you don't do anything constructive to prevent unwanted pregnancy (telling people god doesn't like it, does not count) then we cannot take your opposition to abortions seriously.
The argument is, "we don't want tax dollars paying for abortions". Planned Parenthood says tax dollars only go toward education, contraceptives, other women's health services, etc, and woman pay for their own abortions. I agree money is fungible and it seems kinda gray, but I don't care either way. Why?
1. Because regardless of who pays for it and whether or not it's legal ABORTIONS ARE NOT GOING AWAY. Just like drugs, they only become more dangerous and allow the government to unjustly label more of our citizens as criminals.
2. (WARNING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ UNADULTERATED TRUTH) It's not just the mother who has to live with her mistake. It's all of us, and to illustrate my point I will quote one of the most ridiculous “pro-lifers”. The following is from Ann Coulter's book
Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America:
By 1996, 70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy-two percent of juvenile murderers and 60 percent of rapists come from single-mother homes. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents, and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced. A 1990 study by the Progressive Policy Institute showed that after controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared.
Various studies have come up with slightly different numbers, but all the figures are grim. According to the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, children from single-parent families account for 63 percent of all youth suicides, 70 percent of all teenage pregnancies, 71 percent of all adolescent chemical/substance abuse, 80 percent of all prison inmates, and 90 percent of all homeless and runaway children.
A study cited in the Village Voice produced similar numbers. It found that children brought up in single-mother homes 'are five times more likely to commit suicide, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape (for the boys), 20 times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home.' Single motherhood is like a farm team for future criminals and social outcasts.
....Many of these studies, for example, are from the 1990s, when the percentage of teenagers raised by single parents was lower than it is today. In 1990, 28 percent of children under eighteen were being raised in one-parent homes (mother or father), and 71 percent were being raised in two-parent homes. By 2005, more than one-third of all babies born in the United States were illegitimate. That's a lot of social problems coming.
...Imagine an America with 70 percent fewer juvenile delinquents, 70 percent fewer teenage births, 63 to 70 percent fewer teenage suicides, and 70 percent to 90 percent fewer runaways and you will appreciate what the sainted single mothers have accomplished." -- P.37-38
"A 2008 study led by Georgia State University economist Benjamin Scafidi found that single mothers -- unwed or divorced -- cost the US taxpayer $112 billion every year." -- P.51
So, you see the same people who don't want to pay for abortions also think single motherhood is a bad idea and do not want to pay to support the the children and mother.
More Madness.
If the mother cannot support the child (and maybe even herself), will you? Yes! You will, one way or another. Instead of protesting outside the clinic why don't you just offer to adopt all the babies? You won't because you can't, and neither can the government. If you are appalled by this, I would like to welcome you to reality. Go volunteer at the human society and get a stronger grip. Stop name calling while the adults are actually doing something to prevent what we all hate.