As usual, at this time of year, the Southern Baptist church across from our neighborhood has a lawn full of little crosses out by the road.
Funny, I don't recall seeing any crosses on their lawn in December to acknowledge the first anniversary of the Newtown massacre. But those were six year olds, not fetuses.
The point is that here was a specific occasion where a genuinely pro-life group could have publicly mourned the deaths of a group of born children. And the allegedly pro-life organizations pretty much took a pass on it.
And of course, it's not just Newtown. The same politicians that vote against abortion rights - who are allegedly pro-life - overwhelmingly vote against food stamps, Medicaid expansion, unemployment insurance - things that would make a big difference in the lives of children who chose the wrong families to be born into. And these politicians vote that way because large numbers of their constituents feel that way.
The 'pro-life' movement wants conceived children to be born. But after that, screw 'em, the little moochers and takers.
This is not to say there aren't people who are genuinely pro-life across the board. There are people like that, and I count some of them among my closest friends. But they have no political impact; there is no movement that represents their voices. Certainly the movement that calls itself 'pro-life' doesn't. That movement is strictly pro-birth.
