Sunday, December 30, 2018

"Pro-life"

Another immigrant kid has died in captivity.  These kids are kept in conditions that rival our worst prisons.  

Here is what Thomas Friedman said about being “pro-life.”  

In my world, you don’t get to call yourself”pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control....  You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency....  You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health, and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children....  The term”pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life.  But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth.


I agree with Friedman.  I am tired of people who call themselves “pro-life” yet are willing to rip refugee children from their parents and hold them in for-profit prisons, supporting a president who has no empathy, no goal except to fan the flames of hatred for political advantage.  It is sickening.

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