Abortion is a popular issue for the Christian Right and they frequently portray themselves as being extremely concerned with the lives of babies. Anyone who has looked at the issue very closely, however, knows that this "concern" seems to stop with birth.
For all that the Christina Right makes a big deal about protecting fetuses, they almost completely ignore the interests of actual babies. This should raise serious questions about what the Christian Right is really concerned about.
Sarah writes:
What gets me is that these same people who place such a high value on the fetus do NOTHING for the already-born, unwanted children waiting for adoption (look in your local paper at the classified ads begging people to become foster parents) and the huge number of children in the US who live below the poverty line ("Don't use MY tax dollars for welfare!") etc. etc, blah blah blah.
As a side note, when I reached high-school age, my parents were concerned about the quality of our public schools, and decided to put me in a Catholic-run private school. During a rant against abortion, I asked the priest what happened to aborted babies. I was told they went right to heaven. So I said that the best thing a woman could do was have abortion after abortion, saving soul after soul.
Further, the woman would be a greater person than their Jesus, as even though she would go to everlasting hell for all eternity, she still saved their souls, whereas Jesus (who "died for our sins") knew the game was rigged, and that after he died it would only be a few days before he was back in full glory, waiting to ascend to heaven. Without going into detail, I will simply say that that was how I ended up back in public school, (I only lasted about 4 months in the religious one) and my parents decided to steer clear of any religion-based schools, for which I and my sibling are extremely grateful.
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The people most likely to want to make abortion a crime and thus force more women to carry pregnancies to term, which leads to more unwanted pregnancies coming to term, also seem to be the people who are least likely to support government programs which would help those women care for their children. This leads to more children going hungry, more children failing to learn, more children failing to develop mentally and physically as they should, and of course leads to all the social problems which proceed from all those social problems.
If the anti-choice movement genuinely cared about the welfare of children, they wouldn't favor sending mothers and their children into abusive situations -- but that's exactly what one woman was advised when she went to one of those pregnancy "crisis" centers. There's no way her story is unique; it's a virtual certainty that others have received similar advice. How many children have suffered because of the anti-choice movement?
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