The Hypocrisy Of "Pro-Life" Proponents

The following article highlights the incongruity of those religious dogmatists who rail against abortion but are insensitive to actual persons.  The fact is that there is a direct relationship between those who call themselves "pro-life" and those who actively work against providing life-saving healthcare for the poor.

If you are reading this with criticism, please consider the following points:

• The growing uterine life does not have all the features of a human person from the moment of conception, thus, is really a potential person throughout most of its uterine existence.
• The pregnant women has the right of bodily autonomy.
• There is no evidence for an un-embodied "soul", much less its presence at the moment of conception.
• The vast majority of fertilized eggs are flushed down the toilet.  If you believe the dogma of the religious conservatives, God is the greatest abortionist.

Poor die without N.C. Medicaid expansion

An honest look at abortion statistics

Personal Autonomy And Row V. Wade

"The court classified this right as fundamental, thus requiring any governmental infringement to be justified by a compelling state interest. Roe held that the state's compelling interest in preventing abortion and protecting the life of the mother outweighs a mother's personal autonomy only after viability. Before viability, it was held, the mother's liberty of personal privacy limits state interference due to the lack of a compelling state interest."

Right of Privacy/Personal Autonomy

There is another way of looking at the issue of abortion:  when does the potential person become a person?

If Pro-Lifers Got into the Car Business

What To Expect In The USA If Catholic and Evangelical Christians Win: Vote Wisely

"As I’ve mentioned several times before, Poland was set to enact, though its legislature, the most stringent anti-abortion law in Europe, forbidding all abortions, including those resulting from rape or incest, or when the mother’s life was endangered. Further, all abortions would have been crimes, punishable by up to five years in prison—presumably for both the woman and her doctor. Right now, those specific abortions are legal in Poland, though “normal” abortions aren’t. Two days ago, on “Black Monday,” thousands of Polish women went on strike, donned black clothing and, with sympathetic men, demonstrated against their right-wing, Catholic-dominated government in cities throughout Poland."

 Poland backs off its attempt to criminalize all abortions

So, When Is The "Soul" Created?

"Parthenogenotes behave somewhat similarly to non-reproductive cells in our body. As the authors put it, the fact that pseudo-egg cells can reprogram sperm “blurs functional distinctions” between the different cell types (reproductive, non-reproductive, embryonic) in our body."

Note to the anti-choice crowd:  the title of this post is a serious question.

Surprising Embryo Study Pushes the Limits of How Life Begins

Is Shedding Of So-Called "Family Values" Harmful?

The Religious Right laments the changing social landscape in the USA, which includes accepting of divorce, contraception, abortion and LGBT rights.  They see it as an attack on "Family Values" and "Religious Freedom."  What is the truth regarding the effects of these changes?   While it is true that the percentage of people married in the USA has been decreasing over the last several decades, what negative effects can the Religious Right point to?  Following are data showing societal trends in important categories:

"Pro-Life" Hypocrisy

There are many examples of Republican "Pro-Life" hypocrisy.  The recent threat from the Zika virus adds further evidence of such.

There may never be a consensus on abortion, but can lawmakers not agree to fight a virus that destroys the brains of fetuses?

Is Human Life Intrinsically Valuable?

So-called "Pro-Life" proponents commonly cite the unique place the human animal has in our world because of our creation by a god.  Peter Singer and Susan Blackmore challenge this dogma of human life having intrinsic value over other moral considerations in this respectful debate.

How belief in God can cloud moral life decisions.

That Whole "Abortion = Murder" Thing Is Just A Smokescreen

Do Pro-Life Advocates Want to Reduce Abortion? Sure Doesn’t Look Like It.

Abortion: Bodily Autonomy And Personhood

In McFall v. Shimp, the court ruled that a person cannot be forced to donate body parts like bone marrow, even if such a donation would save another person's life.

What Does It Take To Create Open-Mindedness?

The Limits of Open Mindedness in Debates on Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion