Matrix Glitch wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
In my heart, I'm pro-life. But in my head, I know that outlawing abortion isn't going to make it go away. Also, the very people who have taken control of the pro-life movement couldn't care less about caring for children and their families after birth, and even go as far as to condemn those in need as parasites, leaches, and eaters. So, that's why I'm rooting for this abortion bill of rights.
What makes you think they don't care? Because they're not adopting all the babies or paying out child support for them? That seems like a pretty weak argument. If de-legalization of abortion takes place, do you think the pro-abortionists will step up and start doing that?
Because they want to gut the social safety net which poor and disabled children and their families depend on. They've demonstrated that they care more about limited taxation even at the expense of those who are in need of federal help. On top of that, the religious right has come up with their own Godless Prosperity Gospel - the notion that God rewards the worthy with worldly wealth, and punishes the unworthy by withholding it - in order to justify the hardhearted policies of the secular right. What is there not to understand?
Whether or not pro-choice persons would care for children if abortion was outlawed isn't the point. The point is, the right has decided caring for the children of others only matters before said children are born, and after they die, but not in between. If they're guided by Christianity like they claim, they should be the greatest advocates for using the scope of the federal government to care for those in need.
Perhaps they prefer to help financially on their own, rather than having the government overtax them and using/misusing their money however it wants to. Most churchs I know of give support to the needy. All over town I see that happening daily from churchs and from the vehicles of church goers. But I sure don't see the government out there doing that. And when I've handed out food and water to the needy myself, I've been asked what church I belong to, rather that what government agency I work for. There's all sorts of non-governmental outfits that assist the needy like Habitat For Humanity. I'm on my phone right now, so I don't feel like looking more up, but I bet I could make a out a pretty good list. So perhaps later. In the meantime look up the net worth and lifestyles of your favorite politicians. And see how many pictures you can find of them out helping the needy. Jimmy Carter is the only one I can think of. But maybe that's because he's more of one if those awful Southern Bible Belt Christians, than he was a politician.