Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

To Be Truly Pro-Life…

Bush Hails Progress Toward ‘Culture of Life’ (washingtonpost.com): “President Bush told thousands of antiabortion marchers yesterday that his administration is making progress toward fostering a ‘culture of life’ by enacting measures that limit abortion and stem cell research while expanding the legal definition of life.”

That’s great. Really, it is. But it takes a whole lot more than limiting (or outlawing) abortion and stem cell research. You’ve got to provide free, easily obtainable contraceptives for EVERYONE who is old enough to reproduce. Teenagers should not need their parent’s permission in order to get contraceptives. Access to them is a natural right. If a kid is having sex and they don’t want to talk about it with their parents (which is pretty likely to be the case), then at least give them a way to easily, safely, and effectively prevent pregnancy!

Oh…and I suppose I ought to give at least one sentence to promotion of my favorite hobby-horse. To be truly pro-life is to honor all life. Not just American human lives, but all human lives. And not just human lives, but ALL life of every kind. To be truly pro-life is to oppose policies that are anti-life. War. Practices that harmful to the environment. And so on. That’s the only morally consistent way to go.

The Post article goes on: “”We’re also moving ahead in terms of medicine and research to make sure the gifts of science are consistent with our highest values of freedom, equality, family and human dignity,” Bush said. “We will not sanction the creation of life only to destroy it.”"

Yeah, he probably came up with that line over a lunch of fried chicken.

Hypocrite.