{"id":230667,"date":"2020-09-16T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=230667"},"modified":"2020-10-08T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T23:13:16","slug":"pro-life-support-right-humans-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-support-right-humans-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"To be pro-life, you must support the right to life of preborn human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though there may be sideline debates secondary to the original cause of the pro-life<\/a> movement, it is at its heart a single-issue<\/em> movement against abortion, with members uniting from different backgrounds and beliefs. There are pro-life Christians, Muslims<\/a>, and Atheists<\/a>. There is a Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians<\/a>. Pro-lifers are\u00a0Democrats<\/a>,\u00a0Republicans<\/a>, and Libertarians. They are males and females of all races. As the legalization of assisted suicide began to become a reality, the pro-life movement became known for standing up for the right to life from conception to natural death. But at its core, the pro-life movement is anti-abortion<\/em>, and this is something we should not shy away from. Being “pro-birth” does not mean that pro-lifers are only “pro-birth” and not beyond (as multiple maternity homes, pregnancy resource centers, and other charities prove). But it does mean that a person is not “pro-life” unless that person opposes abortion.<\/p>\n

It’s not about racism<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Black pro-life activist Alyssa McMahon wrote<\/a>, “both sides of the abortion debate have made a priority of appealing to Black women.” This is because Black women are at a higher risk<\/a> of undergoing an abortion than women of any other race. The Black abortion rate<\/a> (abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44) is currently 3.8 times higher<\/em> than the white abortion rate and 2.15 times higher<\/em> than the Hispanic abortion rate.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates claim Black women need<\/em> abortion more than white women do, that Black women will be more successful and empowered in their education and careers because of abortion. They also claim that abortion saves the lives of Black women because of the high maternal mortality rate<\/a> Black women face. But no one needs<\/em> an abortion<\/a>. What Black women need is quality health care and doctors who listent to them rather than brush off their pregnancy-related concerns. Abortion doesn’t save lives.\u00a0Black women are dying<\/a> because of abortion, along with their babies.<\/p>\n

Another claim<\/a> from abortion advocates is that pro-life laws are “a new means of promoting racism and white supremacy.” In truth, it is racism and eugenic thinking that helped launch the birth control and abortion movements<\/a> — not the pro-life movement. Calling pro-lifers racist is a tactic to both distort the truth and attempt to discredit the movement.<\/p>\n

“While there are racist facets of the abortion movement in America, the core evil of abortion is not that it disproportionally targets Black women and babies,” wrote McMahon.<\/p>\n

“We need to be mindful that even if abortion did not decimate the Black population, abortion is still a vicious, colorblind evil that props up other corruptions like adultery, human trafficking, incest, rape, and other sexually deviant behaviors among all racial communities. Abortion has a gross negative output in society, regardless of race, and ought to be abolished.”<\/p>\n