I call BS on the idea of moderate pro-lifers.... like moderate KKK. [View All]

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"Hey just because I got the hood and robe and burning cross, it isn't fair to lump me in with those guys who bomb churches and lynch people." - Moderate KKK Guy.



I'll tell you why I call BS on this idea of moderate pro-lifers.

A person who doesn't like abortion, but wouldn't ban them or overturn the law, is pro-choice. I would point out one can be very anti-abortion, one can hate abortion and wish to see it gone forever, and still be pro-choice.

To be pro-life means you want to overturn the law, and ban abortion.

For these people it is not about life or saving babies, that's why they kill doctors, bomb clinics etc... because the truth is that preventing an abortion is as easy as giving out a condom. Yet, you'll notice the vast majority of those who want to ban abortion, also are wildly against sex education, contraception, and birth control. Because it's not about the fetus. It is not about preventing abortions.

The real issue motiving these Christian extremists is... CONTROLLING WOMEN. That's what this is ALL about, controlling women... primarily by controlling their sexuality. These right wingers would love nothing more than to slap a burka on every woman in the US, but they can't. So instead they seek to impose their view of how women should be permitted to behave, by using the law to shape a system that imposes consequences on those who don't conform to their behavioral standard.

In other words, they feel a sexually promiscuous woman should be punished for that sinful behavior with venereal disease, unwanted children, poverty, and marginalization. But unfortunately for them, things like condoms and abortions, prevent many from suffering the outcome that extremist Christians feel they should suffer for their behavior.

It is a way of controlling behavior... and it is failing. More and more women are escaping this role that the Christian right has sought to impose on them. Education, birth control, and contraceptives have allowed countless women to become sexually liberated and to take that power away from the religious extremists.

There are no moderate pro-lifers... just as their are no moderate burka supporters.

To be pro life is to want to impose an extremist religious view on women, strip them of their rights, and force them to behave the way some religious terrorists demand they behave.

There is no difference between pro-lifers and the KKK or the taliban... all use terror and violence to force their extremist interpretation of their religious bullshit on everyone else. They seek to impose their way, and when people refuse to conform they resort to murder.

A pro-lifer is by definition an extremist.