Post by Portiaami on Jun 5, 2020 15:41:19 GMT
Pro-Life People Care About George Floyd’s Death, And the 2,600 Babies Who Will Die Today in Abortions
www.lifenews.com/2020/06/05/pro-life-people-care-about-george-floyds-death-and-the-2600-babies-who-will-die-today-in-abortions/
The pro-life movement faces a difficult decision every time there is a national tragedy like the one we are facing today. As people who are motivated to activism by the human rights issue of the day, chemical and surgical abortions that have ended millions of innocent lives, pro-life Americans wrestle with how to engage when lives are being lost for other reasons. Given the horrific loss of George Floyd and others since the protests began, many Americans are grieved and responding to these tragedies. But critics of the pro-life movement are abusing this crisis to dictate what our responses must be. They have it all figured out because if we “were really pro-life” our life’s work would be something else.
Pro-life organizations, sometimes, are uniquely placed to respond to other human rights injustices. But if all we do is respond to other issues, we’re no longer focused on defending mothers and their children, born and preborn whatever their color or race, and we would be buying into the false argument that the “pro-life issue“ isn’t important enough to be considered on its own.
Though it can be powerful when companies use their expansive platforms to promote social justice issues, such as when Wendy’s promotes adoption, no one expects Wendy’s or Airbnb or Nike to post every single time there is a human rights issue in the news. But for pro-life groups, there is this expectation, often expressed angrily and on social media, that every life lost requires our immediate action.
Consider the op-eds criticizing conservatives and Republicans for wanting to scale back the coronavirus lockdowns, saying it was a denial of their pro-life views. Multiply that by crises in immigration, criminal justice reform or anti-poverty programs. Lives are lost in many ways. But I don’t need to be lectured on how pro-life people should respond to events by those who support abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy and, sometimes, even after, working to push the limits on how lives are ended in the U.S.
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www.lifenews.com/2020/06/05/pro-life-people-care-about-george-floyds-death-and-the-2600-babies-who-will-die-today-in-abortions/
The pro-life movement faces a difficult decision every time there is a national tragedy like the one we are facing today. As people who are motivated to activism by the human rights issue of the day, chemical and surgical abortions that have ended millions of innocent lives, pro-life Americans wrestle with how to engage when lives are being lost for other reasons. Given the horrific loss of George Floyd and others since the protests began, many Americans are grieved and responding to these tragedies. But critics of the pro-life movement are abusing this crisis to dictate what our responses must be. They have it all figured out because if we “were really pro-life” our life’s work would be something else.
Pro-life organizations, sometimes, are uniquely placed to respond to other human rights injustices. But if all we do is respond to other issues, we’re no longer focused on defending mothers and their children, born and preborn whatever their color or race, and we would be buying into the false argument that the “pro-life issue“ isn’t important enough to be considered on its own.
Though it can be powerful when companies use their expansive platforms to promote social justice issues, such as when Wendy’s promotes adoption, no one expects Wendy’s or Airbnb or Nike to post every single time there is a human rights issue in the news. But for pro-life groups, there is this expectation, often expressed angrily and on social media, that every life lost requires our immediate action.
Consider the op-eds criticizing conservatives and Republicans for wanting to scale back the coronavirus lockdowns, saying it was a denial of their pro-life views. Multiply that by crises in immigration, criminal justice reform or anti-poverty programs. Lives are lost in many ways. But I don’t need to be lectured on how pro-life people should respond to events by those who support abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy and, sometimes, even after, working to push the limits on how lives are ended in the U.S.
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