Using his Father's Day speech
"We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception."To question him about when conception begins.
I would think it would be more effective to hit him with his support of infanticide but maybe they wanted to go for the low key approach.
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"'m sorry but you don't get to define what pro-life means.
Sure I do."
No, you don't. It's already been defined. According to Merriam-Webster:
opposed to abortion
"IMO, if all you care about is the nine months in the womb, then you're selfish and short-sighted. You should care about far more than that."
It's appropriate that you didn't add the "h."
So, you think that if the child isn't supported by the pro-life community, then it's better off dead?
I'd have to guess if you are "pro-life," then you'd also be opposed to the death penalty and opposed to warfare as well. And the point is fair enough that you'd want every effort to provide health care and eradicate poverty, treat addiction, and all the other things that lead to premature death. If you're just "pro-life" on the abortion issue, then maybe your idea of "pro-life" is that YOU get to decide who lives and who dies. I dunno, just something to consider.
"I'd have to guess if you are "pro-life," then you'd also be opposed to the death penalty and opposed to warfare as well. "
Why would you think that?
According to Merriam-Webster:
LOL! The best definition you can offer me is something out of a dictionary? You can't possibly be serious.
So, you think that if the child isn't supported by the pro-life community, then it's better off dead?
No. I think that if the only thing the so-called "pro-life" community cares about is the nine months in the womb, then they're not really pro-life. They're just against abortion.
*Really* being pro-life is about so much more than that.
Why would you think that?
I know this wasn't directed at me, but I think I can answer it.
Because someone who is truly "pro-life" has a consistent ethic of life. They oppose not only abortion, but euthanasia, unjustified war, and the death penalty, and they work to ease poverty and other causes of social justice because they believe that by doing so, they're improving the quality of life for others that would in turn reduce all the issues they oppose.
Just opposing abortion isn't enough. What happens after that baby is born? Do you just stop caring at all?
No, you don't have to raise the kid yourself. But if all you care about is whether it's born or not, then you're just against abortion. You're not truly pro-life.
this is the problem that you get into when right wing conservatives mislabel their activism. they should have stuck with "anti-abortion" or more appropriately, anti-choice. they're allowed to chose for themselves to not have an abortion, but they want to go farther than that - they want to take away other peoples' choice too. pro-life is a canard, purposefully misleading. call it what you like, but most who take your position are not about pro-life.
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