Pro-life

Will you provide me and my child with medical care? Will I get paid for the days I take off work for prenatal care? Will I get paid maternity leave? Will you guarantee that my employer provides a safe place for me to pump? Will you subsidize his daycare? If I get hit by a bus and am unable to work will you help with the rent? Will you give him an education? Will you fund his library? Will you make sure he drinks clean water? If the conversation about his life ends as soon as his life begins are you really pro-life?

I am pro-life. I believe in the sanctity of life, and I don’t believe state legislators get to decide when life begins, or what it means, whether it is a heartbeat, pain, or a first breath.

I believe in the sanctity of a woman’s choice to give life because she knows best if she can care for that life. It is a hard choice. It’s a hard choice because oftentimes, women are the ones left behind to figure out the insurance, the housing, the day-care, the schooling. We do it with unequal pay, unequal labor. Giving life is an unequal burden.   

There’s a Chinese proverb about saving a life. Something about if you save a life you are responsible for that life, something, something. There’s another proverb. I guess people don’t know about it: if you force one person to give a life when actually two people are responsible that life happening, then the government is responsible for that life. Free healthcare, rent subsidies and universal income. And what’s the point of being pro-life if you can’t enjoy life, so there’s also free trips to Disneyland AND free trips to Napa Valley. Also, free maternity clothes and free baby clothes, but it has to be made of organic cotton. Part of the proverb is also that Whole Foods has to take SNAP.  

If you think I’m being ridiculous, just take a look at Alabama, Georgia and Missouri.