In my opionion, I think the reason that the Religious Right hinders the pro-life movement is because they have politicized morality, and then come off as hypocrites by not truly being pro-life. The Religious Right hinders because they have shown themselves to be so UN-humanitarian in other ways.
I think it's obvious that the Republican "pro-life" movement is not truly pro-life, but only anti-abortion and anti-embryonic stem cell research (both worthy causes that I support). But they have no problem with war, they have no problem with the death penalty, and the party platform also has no problem placing the economy (MONEY) in a position of importance over human life (hate-mongering about how immigrants will make the economy tank and steal away our medical/educational/etc resources). Their platform doesn't seem to care about helping the poor at all, just keeping the middle and upper classes (of which I am a part) from having to SHARE their resources and capital.
I honestly agree that I'd like to have LESS governmental interference. In a perfect world, we and our fellow human beings would redistrubute our wealth freely, without forced taxes from the government, without control lying with any one group. But it disgusts me how Republicans (here in the US) are so against any kind of help to immigrants, and others that might take our "hard-earned money" away from us.
Ok, I'm just tangentially complaining now. But anyway: the political pro-life movement gives the true pro-life movement a bad name because they are not truly pro-life, and they have hijacked the these "causes" and turned them into political issues and are relying on the GOVERNMENT to legislate morality, all the while screwing people over money.
Don't even get me started on the Democrats. The democratic platform sucks, too. It's so very sad that a pro-life democrat can't make it two seconds in the party because of the pro-choice issue. I can't wait until the day when we are no longer a two-party system (and I don't count the supposed "Tea Party" - that's just a clever ploy by conservatives to get the attention of those of us who vote third party and feel disenfranchised by the two party system).
I think that we women who say this is a feminist issue are fooling ourselves. Feminism is a celebration of the feminine, a call to not descriminate against the feminine in favor of the masculine. That is not what modern-day feminism is, however. It is instead hell bent on equality, and in the process we've just forced women to become more and more like men in an attempt at this equality. How does killing someone within us make us "free" and "empowered"? I am a feminist, but not in the sense of today's socio-political feminism.
When it comes down to it, this IS a human rights issue, but not a feminist one. This should be a human rights issue in that every life deserves the opportunity to be LIVED.
.... ok, I'm totally soapboxing, so I will stop right here!
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Date: 2010-10-01 09:17 pm (UTC)I think it's obvious that the Republican "pro-life" movement is not truly pro-life, but only anti-abortion and anti-embryonic stem cell research (both worthy causes that I support). But they have no problem with war, they have no problem with the death penalty, and the party platform also has no problem placing the economy (MONEY) in a position of importance over human life (hate-mongering about how immigrants will make the economy tank and steal away our medical/educational/etc resources). Their platform doesn't seem to care about helping the poor at all, just keeping the middle and upper classes (of which I am a part) from having to SHARE their resources and capital.
I honestly agree that I'd like to have LESS governmental interference. In a perfect world, we and our fellow human beings would redistrubute our wealth freely, without forced taxes from the government, without control lying with any one group. But it disgusts me how Republicans (here in the US) are so against any kind of help to immigrants, and others that might take our "hard-earned money" away from us.
Ok, I'm just tangentially complaining now. But anyway: the political pro-life movement gives the true pro-life movement a bad name because they are not truly pro-life, and they have hijacked the these "causes" and turned them into political issues and are relying on the GOVERNMENT to legislate morality, all the while screwing people over money.
Don't even get me started on the Democrats. The democratic platform sucks, too. It's so very sad that a pro-life democrat can't make it two seconds in the party because of the pro-choice issue. I can't wait until the day when we are no longer a two-party system (and I don't count the supposed "Tea Party" - that's just a clever ploy by conservatives to get the attention of those of us who vote third party and feel disenfranchised by the two party system).
I think that we women who say this is a feminist issue are fooling ourselves. Feminism is a celebration of the feminine, a call to not descriminate against the feminine in favor of the masculine. That is not what modern-day feminism is, however. It is instead hell bent on equality, and in the process we've just forced women to become more and more like men in an attempt at this equality. How does killing someone within us make us "free" and "empowered"? I am a feminist, but not in the sense of today's socio-political feminism.
When it comes down to it, this IS a human rights issue, but not a feminist one. This should be a human rights issue in that every life deserves the opportunity to be LIVED.
.... ok, I'm totally soapboxing, so I will stop right here!