{"id":128795,"date":"2016-10-19T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=128795"},"modified":"2016-10-19T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:14:46","slug":"pro-life-group-petitions-media-to-show-diversity-of-pro-life-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-group-petitions-media-to-show-diversity-of-pro-life-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life group petitions media to show the diversity of pro-lifers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The pro-life movement is extremely diverse. People of different ideologies, political parties, and belief systems care about preborn babies and work to protect them. Yet the media, which is often hostile to the pro-life message, tends to portray all pro-lifers as conservative and religious. Conservatives and religious people are vital members of the pro-life movement, of course, and they have done a great deal for the cause.<\/p>\n

But because of the bias of the media, few in the public know that there are passionate pro-lifers who are feminists, secularists, and\/or peace activists. There are numerous feminist groups that oppose abortion, and pro-peace (anti-war) groups that oppose all forms of violence, abortion included. \u00a0If more people understood the diversity of the pro-life movement, they might stop seeing the pro-life cause as exclusively for conservative Christians. Too many people reject the pro-life message not because they have carefully considered it, but because they associate an anti-abortion stand with those who are religious and\/or right wing. If they don’t fall into these categories, they believe the pro-life movement is not for them. The media, which seeks out and interviews mainly religious people and conservative politicians who are pro-life supporters, encourages this way of thinking.<\/p>\n

The truth is, there is a pro-life group for just about everyone, from atheists<\/a>\u00a0and humanists<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0gays and lesbians<\/a>. If more people knew this, maybe they would pay more attention to the pro-life message and evaluate it on its own terms. They would be unable to dismiss opposition to abortion as part of a “right-wing” or “Christian” belief system. \u00a0The message would get out that one does not have to be a religious conservative to be pro-life.<\/p>\n

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