Partial truth

In this Sunday and Monday's Kansas City Star, there was an amazing article about a family named Weatherford who carried their child full term- despite the fact that they knew he would die at birth. there was nothing medical science could do to save their son and so they decided to love him every minute he was alive - with every kick and roll in utero, and for 35 minutes after his birth, he was perfectly and absolutely loved. I read it as an amazing affirmation to the capacity of human beings to find meaning and God in the hardest of situations. A friend remarked wryly that it was an interesting twist on pro-life. I think that was a statement that reduced its wonder and love.I must recommend it. Google Zeke's Story and I think you will get it.

Dear Mr. Kuo, The problem with the pro-life movement is that it wants to control other people but refuses to take responsibility for the decisions it wants to make for others. If you are so concerned about unborn babies, then what about the born ones who live in poverty? If people are so pro-life, why don't they get their hands dirty and raise, feed, pay for doctor visits and schooling for those children whose parents cannot support? What I see in the pro-life movement is a huge lack of care for the babies who have been born. They just want the babies to be born. If the infant dies in poverty, who cares as long as it was born. The pro-life movement is not pro child. It is anti-child and anti-woman. Please feel free not to help us live more "righteous" lives. You are doing more damage than help.

The history and politics are interesting but your last paragraph is the key one. How we treat each other wherever we meet each other has to matter more than the courts and the legislature. Jesus' sermon has to be central to Christian thinking and behavior.

I don't think it is fair to paint the pro-life movement with a broad brush. The Roman Catholic Church have long argued for support of social assistance and welfare to help unwed mothers raising their children.
In democratic debate, we should avoid judging other people. The Pro-choice movement should stop demonizing the pro-life movement as anti-woman, anti-sex bigots. The pro-life movement should stop demonizing pro-choice people as baby killers. My god, can this debate ever reach some sense of decorum?

Women only have late-term abortions, I will venture close to 100% of the time, when: 1)the baby has very severe birth defects that will cause that baby to suffer and require staggering medical care, just to continue to suffer and often die; or 2)the mother develops complications with the pregnancy that will kill her or threaten her health in a very serious manner. It is very hard to even find doctors to get these procedures done. I am in school studying prenatal ultrasound, and there are many heartbreaking medical events that can go wrong and do go wrong with pregnancies. I leave it to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to decide what method is best, or the least harmful and awful (there is no happy option), in order to do the late-term abortion. Pro-life people, especially those lacking a uterus, need to get serious and become educated about these medical realities. This is not morality or ideology; it's blood and guts, life, health, and death. You won't know until it happens to your wife, or your daughter.

Your final question is worded as though the Christian community hasn't been reaching out to women who've aborted their children or delivered babies who need families. Where are the agnostic and atheist and socialist organizations doing this? Christians have been helping women pick up the shattered pieces of their lives since this became legal; the other side? It's just been performing, then ushering the women out the door to make room for the next patient.