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“pro-life”. The term may be the most well known as describing a person that is either involved with or identifies themselves with the anti-abortion movement, a movement that is quite prominent in my home state of Mississippi. Considering we only have one clinic that provides the abortion procedure in the entire state, I think it’s safe to say the “pro-life” movement has a lot of influence around here. But let’s examine that term. “Pro-life”. What does it mean? Well, literally, it would mean a person against the ending of any life, be it that of a fetus, an animal or even a human being. Tell me this: how many “pro-life” people do you know that are either a) against the current mess in Iraq (civilians and soldiers are killed everyday) b) are vegetarian (the animals in the meat plants are killed in a particularly brutal way), c) against the death penalty (which plays God by ending the lives of criminals or d) all three—the ultimate “pro-lifer”.
And our president, who is supposedly “pro-life”. Does the extent of his care and compassion for human life only extend to that of the pre-born? Maybe because fetuses don’t need to be drafted to fight his illegal war. Maybe fetuses won’t commit crimes that would eventually land them of death row. Maybe fetuses won’t experience the freedoms we so take for granted that our Dear Leader is slowly but surely taking away from us. Maybe fetuses didn’t get stranded in the New Orleans Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
It’s all of these things. The hypocrisy blows my mind. These people—who claim to care so much about the value and sanctity of human life—and yet they don’t. And I’ll admit this: I eat meat (though I was a vegetarian for about two months). I am opposed to the death penalty. I am against the war in Iraq and think we should try to solve most of our problems with diplomacy and only use war when it’s only necessary. And, believe it or not, I strongly dislike abortion. But I don’t think it needs to be illegalized. That would create only more problems and even more lives lost (that of the woman and the potential life of the fetus). So, in essence, pro-choice is pro-life, at least in my view of the phrase.
Secondly, we’ll examine the “Culture Warriors”. The “Culture Warriors” are always thinking someone in that nasty liberal media is trying so hard to either a) turn their children gay (which, by the way, is scientifically impossible. Homosexuality is genetic and determined at birth) or b) corrupt the minds of their innocent children with all that vulgarity and whatnot. While I agree that young children shouldn’t watch porn, I still believe that censorship is a very bad—and very dangerous—thing. Especially in this country of ours, the land of the free.
But a seemingly large amount of these “Culture Warriors” strongly support this quagmire with Iraq. And some are even able-bodied 18-22 year olds. It’s a wonder why some of them don’t enlist in the Army or the navy, or the Marines. Don’t they support this war? Weren’t they the ones that cheered BushCo on as they led us deeper and deeper into debt at home and as the number of casualties abroad increased? If you support this war and you are an able-bodied 18-22 year old—I’ll put it bluntly—you should get your ass to the closest army recruiting station and enlist. And to those who do enlist, I salute you. And to those who aren’t planning to enlist, though they support this war, you’re just another chicken-hawk.
Would Jesus bomb an abortion clinic? Would Jesus go to an anti-gay rally? Would Jesus choose to execute even the vilest criminals while still professing love for one’s neighbor? Does Jesus really love all the little children of the world—or just the ones that are American? Would Jesus let a homeless man starve while thinking to himself that the man is just another lazy bum, while professing that the meek shall inherit the earth?