An anti-abortion activist wrote, “I will kill every Democrat in the world so we never more have to have our babies brutally murdered by you absolute terrorists.”
This is what the so-called pro-life position has come to. I will kill you all to prove that I believe life is sacred, given by an all-powerful God who will reward me for my virtuous thoughts.
It has been resounding clear for many years that most people in America who pronounce themselves to be “pro-life” are not. Politically, they support a strong military, the nuclear deterrent (founded on the premise that we would rather have everyone die than allow you to defeat us), capital punishment, and guns. There is nothing remotely about these positions– wrong or right, from a practical point of view– that can be considered reflective of a value you could call “pro” life. The hypocrisy is so obvious that it hardly needs to be stated.
So why do so many people, especially evangelical Christians, go around pounding their chests and declaring themselves “pro” life when they are not? Because what they are really is anti-sex. Because what they want, really, is to control women’s bodies. And what makes them really angry is the thought that you or I might be enjoying something that they think obsessively about and which they have denied to themselves. Sex sex sex.
An unwanted pregnancy is their revenge on the women who defy their views on social order. You can almost visualize them sneering at the unfortunate teenager whose life is now ruined. You deserve it.
They do not care about the six-week-old fetus. They do not care about old people in nursing homes. They do not care about the Iraqi mothers and children who were slaughtered in George Bush’s invasion. They only care about making you pay for the sheer arrogance of your condescension towards their credulous views on morality and God.