To be Pro Choice. By Eric Smith

To be Pro Choice is not to be pro abortion. It is to acknowledge the unique set of circumstances attendant to the female gender in regards to the challenges and lifetime implications of being biologically endowed with the ability to bring life into the world. We men are essentially sperm donors but it is the woman to which all new life is intrinsically bound for she and she alone must bear the physical & psychological burden of bringing that child to term within her physical person over the course of many trying months. What's more, she more than any man must confront the harsh reality of a world that is often cruel, callous, and unfair and deermine whether or not that life she stands to release into the world would be better off entering it or be better served by not entering it at all.

The would be mother recognizes better than anyone that compassion minus commitment is cheap grace; that those who bring life into the world bear a special responsibility to it and so of course do those who force that life to be brought into this world so as to satisfy their own sense of morality. The Pro Life crowd that would outlaw abortions yet absolve itself of any responsibility for the person they forced to be born against the mother's will in effect feels that it is far more important for a child born under these circumstances to suffer from neglect, poverty, and deprivation than for them to be denied the chance to feel good about themselves; to puff out their chests and brag about how such decent, moral Christians they are.

These people can talk all they want about caring about the sanctity of human life but if that were true they wouldn't complain about having to help pay for it for if life is as valuable as they say it is then it is priceless. This Pro Life stance of the Far Right is at heart an exercise in child exploitation of the lowest order for these people are for the most part Pro Life for partisan purposes and partisan purposes alone. Those who are not do not go around telling a woman "I demand that you not abort your fetus but once born I insist that I not be expected to help pay for it!" That is essentially what the Pro Life crowd is saying. They want to be moral but they also want others to pay for the consequences of their forced morality on others.

To be truly Pro Life is not to merely be Pro Life before birth; it is to be Pro Life for the duration of the life of that person who is forced to be born. So since these Pro Life Right Wingers are ultimately more concerned with what's in their wallets than with the lives they would force into the world they should be more Pro Choice than anybody since every aborted poor child is one less child their tax dollars has to pay for. Oh they don't want to hear this but hear it they must and hear it they forever will, from me.