Reply #77: It's perfectly consistent, actually. [View All]

Trying to stop desperate women from having abortions is as effective as making suicide illegal and prosecuting those who unsuccessfully attempt it. Which has also been done, with monstrous cruelty, under the rubric of "pro-life."

It's perfectly consistent to say that a pro-life position is one that wants to shape public policy to make the fewest possible abortions happen, as well as the fewest possible suicides. In fact, that is the REALLY gutsy, really passionate, really (in one sense of the word) extremist interpretation of "pro-life," because it predicates far more fundamental and sweeping and costly changes to our society than merely passing cruel laws that require desperate people to risk horribly physical consequences to alleviate their desperation.

Reducing that desperation is the real, consistent, "pro-life" position.

thoughtfully,
Bright