I am pro-life

[Bjorn Against]

I am pro-life because I believe it is wrong to drop bombs on innocent civilians in Iraq.

I am pro-life because I oppose the death penalty.

I am pro-life because I believe that no American should ever have to suffer a slow painful death because they were not able to afford health care.

I am pro-life because I oppose torture.

I am pro-life because I oppose cutting welfare benefits to people who are already unable to provide for their basic human needs.

I am pro-life because I want to protect the environment and stop global warming.

And I am pro-life because I believe that no woman should ever have to risk her life by performing a delicate medical procedure with a coat-hanger.

Today we live in a world in which words are spun to make those who slaughter innocent Iraqi children appear to be pro-life. We live in a world in which we are told our so-called President has been spreading freedom and democracy around the world while ignoring the fact that this "President" was only able to take office through electoral fraud. We live in a world where up is down, black is white, and pro-torture is pro-life. We live in a world of illusions.

It is time that we see through those illusions and start speaking the truth. We must take back our language and insist that pro-life does not mean anti-choice, it means anti-war. It means standing up for basic human rights, it means standing up for the poor the oppressed and the innocent civilians who lie in the paths of the war ships.

It is those of us who stand up to protect a woman's right to choose to have a delicate medical procedure done in a safe environment who are pro-life not those who want to go back to the days of the coat hanger.

So yes I am pro-life, and I have a feeling you are too.

[CountAllVotes]

1. yeah me too

pro life if you want it.

[PresidentObama]

2. Wow powerful post.

:patriot: First and last time I'll ever say I'm pro-life!

You are right. Pro-Life should be these issues like torture, opposing the death penalty, opposing droping bombs in Iraq, and wanting to stand up for the poor and the environment.

NOT abortion.

[Bjorn Against]

5. It may be the first time, but don't make it the last

We need to change the debate in this country, we are pro-life and we need to be clear about it. We can not allow them to keep stealing the language from us.

[calimary]

15. ABSOLUTELY. We need to yank this back, on OUR terms, just like

we did with Capitol Hill in general, last November.

[niyad]

3. beautifully said! we have license plates here that read "respect life" -and for each and every one

of them, I place the following :

"Since your license plate reads "respect life", I am assuming that you are against war, and against the death penalty. If you are neither, then you are nothing more than a hypocrite."

Doubt it makes any difference to the sheeples, but makes me feel a bit better.

[AtomicKitten]

4. It is ironic that the wingnuts reserve that term for abortion.

It is as you so pointed out so much more than that.

[silverweb]

6. Beautifully said.

:kick:

[lvx35]

7. Recommended...good idea

We must take back our language and insist that pro-life does not mean anti-choice, it means anti-war. It means standing up for basic human rights, it means standing up for the poor the oppressed and the innocent civilians who lie in the paths of the war ships.

[rhiannon55]

8. To the greatest page you go

What a powerful and eloquent essay!

I am pro-life, too.

[Freedomofspeech]

9. Great post...

thanks.

[Lisa0825]

10. K&R

Great post! :yourock:

[knitter4democracy]

11. Amen and amen. Count me in on that list.

You said it so perfectly. Thank you!

[Selah]

12. i.e. pro choice

[mzmolly]

13. "We live in a world of illusions."

Well said, another rec for you.

:toast:

[calimary]

14. Very, very nice! A superb rebuttal to those crackpots who yammer on

about their own narrow, and often hypocritical, "pro-life" views, and try to force those views on everybody else. Kicked, recommended, and bookmarked.

[Time for change]

16. Very well said

I would like to see a Bush supporter try to respond to this. :hide:

[keepCAblue]

17. Another recommend and kick. Emailing this to my friends...n/t

[ironflange]

18. I am anti-abortion

I don't like it, and I wish it wasn't there. I am, however, pro-choice, and I would never deny any procedure to anyone. Being of the male gender gives me no right to make noise in what is purely a woman's issue.

[tblue]

21. Nobody 'likes' abortion. We all wish it would never be necessary. But it must remain legal & safe.

I don't like the thought of a late-term fetus being aborted. Who does? But it's not me who will bear the kid and it's not me who will raise it, and who am I to tell another woman she must give birth? I hate to say some babies might be better off not born, but when I hear of serious child abuse, it makes me think sometimes, 'She never shoulda had that baby.'

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. I dream of a world where it isn't necessary or desirable.

But until then, I'm with you. Pro-choice.

[GenDem]

19. Well said! K & R

[nolabels]

20. I am for not compounding mistakes with more mistakes

Life is often a thing which cannot be planned. Good or bad, people or civilization in general has toiled long and hard to work to this point in history. The ability to give individuals profound and life changing choices is how our society progresses. The throws of Male apartheid is in some of last gasps and it's high time men butt out how a women decide for their individuality. The fundamental choices of how others life should unfold cannot be left to those who would want to oppress others. The words life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness go hand in hand. Though they may be only words with ideas behind them, separating those words from the individual makes them individuals just a cog in a machine. People are not machines and people that think that way should think again.

A mistake, a change of mind, a miscalculation, or whatever other reason for change to how one controls their body has to be the purview of that individual. To be otherwise is not functional or how life works

[huskerlaw]

22. An oldie, but a goodie!

K/R

[gratefultobelib]

23. I could not possibly agree more. I have long hated the pro-life vs pro-choice parlance.

I remember being outside Planned Parenthood many years ago during a demonstration. The bad guys (and it was predominantly men) were supposedly carrying a coffin with a dead fetus in it across the nation--something cozy like that. Anyway, they were yelling "pro-life" and we were yelling "pro-choice," right? And I remember being very bothered that I was having to yell as if I were in favor of dead babies.

You've got to give the other side their due, in that they've been very effective with their labeling, i.e. pro-life, culture of death, partial birth abortion. It seems so simple to me--just let the woman and her doctor decide. Please?