“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own! Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you!”

• George Carlin.

They’re not pro-life. They’re pro forced birth.

You can’t call yourself pro life.

Seriously. So few people are genuinely “pro-life anti-abortion” if someone says they are pro life safe money is that they’re just lying.

I mean, you can’t say your pro life and then end welfare programs and dismantle the education system and deny school lunch and wait outside schools while children are mass murdered and don’t change gun laws that repeatedly target them and all of the thousands of other ways Republicans work every day to hurt children, and yet they still do it.

They can, and they will. This country was built and thrives on puritanical hypocrisy.

Hot take here: Protecting children starts at birth.

Unless you’re q Republican, then feyussea are important, babies can go fuck themselves, the greedy little blasters always want money

Anti-abortion access was never about improving the welfare of children. Historically, the laws we have to protect children (food provisions like Food Stamps / SNAP, medical care, child labor regulations, etc.) occurred only after we had animal protection laws, and someone noticed animals have more rights than kids do.

Education was a result of kids out of work engaging in too much mischief. The point was containment first, and the whole let’s teach them some basics thing came later.

And no-one wants to know the hazards that Victoria-era street urchins had to face. It’s better to imagine the Devil’s Dandy Dogs / The Hounds of Tindalos consumed those children who failed to dodge artfully.

Today, the juvenile court system in the US remains a nightmare, where kids are warm bodies to fuel prison rackets. Children are not guaranteed Constitutional rights, nor the Miranda rights. They often do not get due process, and minors often suffer dearly for breaking laws that do not apply to majority citizens (adults). Woe to the black kid or adolescent that crosses path with police.

One day the society built on the ashes of the US will actually take interest in the welfare and safety of children. But probably not in my lifetime.

(When I played The Sims 2 a family had guests over, and the baby was on the floor (a distracted sim will put a baby on the floor on occasion), and one of the non-friend guests picked her up, fed her and changed her diaper. And I had to pause and cry that I don’t live in that society. Said guest then fell into the hold youngster abyss which in The Sims 2 is the substitute for crack cocaine.)

Imo you can’t call yourself pro-life and be against a fair social system (at the very least regarding medical fees). Loosing your mother at age 6 becausee insulin costs 400$ a vial is not being protected, neither is dying from cancer at age 12 because the insurance won’t pay for your treatment.

Protecting Children does not stop at birth.

Well, for the GOP, it does. They are so bad at protecting children in so many ways that Epstein is only a minor issue…

The irony is that a lot of people that are anti abortion don’t give a fuck about the child after it’s born and wouldn’t even yawn if they died afterwards, especially if it’s a black kid

This is not a meme. It’s just a statement. 🤷‍♀️

Seen something similar about school breakfasts. No, they can

Lol. It’s not about “protecting children”, it’s about controlling women.

oh, but that’s where you’re wrong. Once they’re born, they can get fucked. /s