I’m not here to persuade anyone to become pro-choice. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I’m here to show the hypocrisy in pro-life’s rhetoric: you can’t be pro-life and not care about every life.
As of 2014, there are 415,129 children in foster homes waiting to be adopted and 15 million children in the United States live in families below the poverty line. Flint, Michigan still doesn’t have clean water. Of the 1.6 million to 2.8 million homeless youth in America, 20 to 40 percent of them are a part of the LGTB community. There is currently a Muslim Ban (If the President can call it a Muslim Ban, then so can I).
All of these lives that need help but the only lives you’re concerned about are the ones that aren’t even born yet. If you care so much about life, why don’t you care about the ones that actually need help?
Pro-life supporters are notorious for being against abortions. They want to get rid of Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organization that provides affordable healthcare to anyone who needs it. Pro-life supporters have even been quoted to have said that Planned Parenthood is a “killing center.” However, if you look at the statistics from the 2013-14 Planned Parenthood services, abortion only accounted for 3% of their services provided.
Do you know what the other 97% was utilized for? STI/STD testing and treatment, contraception, and cancer screening and prevention. Services that actually cater to the health and well-being of people who need it. If Planned Parenthood were to be defunded, it would effect the healthcare of millions of women nationwide. Since Planned Parenthood is a place for affordable healthcare, closing locations or raising prices would disproportionally affect low-income women, causing unwanted pregnancies and quite possibly an increase in STIs/STDs.
Pro-life supporters also want to reverse Roe vs. Wade, which ruled it was unconstitutional to make abortions illegal. Something that happens every year around the anniversary or Roe vs. Wade is The March for Life. This organization claims that their vision is, “A world where every human life is valued and protected.”
Isn’t it ironic that you march for the unborn but not for the hungry? Not for the poor? Not for the systematically oppressed individuals of this country? Let alone on this Earth?
The hypocrisy in these beliefs baffles me. How can you care for one and not for the other? When you say that you want to protect life, you have to understand the weight of those words. The responsibility that entails. Because if pro-lifers believe they are valuing and protecting each human life, they are sadly mistaken. They are putting the lives of unborn children over the lives of people who desperately need help now. Instead of using the country’s money to build a wall bordering Mexico, we should use that money to help give the people of Flint, Michigan clean water, an inalienable right that should be granted to us all. Practice what you preach, pro-lifers. Practice what you preach.
