With Justice Kennedy retiring, and the possibilities of Donald Trump getting to assign another Judge to the Supreme Court. With this reality that Satan has bestowed upon us, the sanctimonious, full of shit, pro-life movement sees a sadist-laden victory in their sights. The Pro-life movement needs to be aborted from American law and culture, because they're completely full of shit. If a pro-lifer cared about the environment, antiwar, or were for universal; healthcare, education, housing, daycare, medicare, food, income etc. I could see where they were coming from. Unfortunately, they are not for any of those issues that I listed. Here is why...
Recently a Michigan Judge (Conservative) has decided that children to do not have a right to literacy. "That's right ma'am, you can't get an abortion, but if you want your kid to get an education and have a chance. Well, fuuuuck you.."
If you don't think that literacy is important, this is what End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles thinks God will destroy America if Kennedy isn't replaced with an anti-choice Judge:
"This is it folks. I can't imagine that the Lord is going to allow this country to continue on this path. If we allow these baby killers to overcome this opportunity and to stop a pro-life Judge from being appointed to the Supreme Court, I cannot believe that God is going to give this country one more chance. I just can't believe we're going to get another chance. He's going to let this country suffer the consequences of what we've chosen and if we choose death, we're going to get death in this country."
I guess God truly didn't give a shit about us committing genocide of the native population, enslaving Africans, bombing Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos, invade and drone Muslims who did nothing to us but now hate us because we kill them while they're having a wedding, or economic policies that harm the poor of the earth and destroy God's very earth (Christians can always come up with an excuse). If God isn't going punish us for those, I'm not worried that God will punish us for abortion.
Like Rick Wiles though, the pro-life movement is not based upon rigorous studies of the world, personal reflection, or they are just being purposely dishonest. Mike Pence, a pro-life nutcase, proved this point while in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with the leaders of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. While speaking, Pence said "this exodus must end" and "just as we respect your borders and your sovereignty, we insist that you respect ours." Pence is either being breathtakingly stupid, or typical United States diplomatic dishonesty. In all three countries we have overthrown governments, backed death squads, or exploited labor. America does not respect their borders, and that goes all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine.
The reality is that modern conservatism and those in the pro-life movement, are insane. The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins spoke proudly of this on June 28th, in which he celebrated that pro-choice Republicans have almost entirely been removed from the poverty. the dominance of the anti-choice Republicans is "the answer to decades or prayer." When people like Margaret Hoover talk about moderate conservatives, she is but one of many examples of people in the media being in a bubble.
Is calling those in the pro-life movement insane the right thing to do? I don't know, explain what right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson said on his "Generations" radio program talking about those appalled by Trump separating children from their parents, and explain to me how this is not insanity?:
"They're taking issue with Trump on these minor issues when, indeed, we've got a crack house here. We've got people killing their babies with abortifacients and abortion right and left, we have a welfare system that is redistributing 40-50 percent of the wealth every year and creating a welfare-dependent immigration base that's inevitably going to vote Democratic year after year after year and year. We've got a mess on our hands. We're violating the Seventh Commandment, we're violating the Sixth Commandment, we're violating the Eighth Commandment and these guys are all up in arms over what happens to some immigrants down in Phoenix, Arizona."
I'm glad this Kevin Swanson jerk-off said this, because he is a perfect example of the pro-life movement that I critique. First of all, his sympathy is for that of the fetus, and it ends there. Secondly, he's against abortion, but has a clear contempt for the poor with his ridiculous welfare statistics and his view of those on welfare. Third, he mentions commandments (Old Testament by the way), but what about Matthew 25:40?:
"I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me."
If you want to argue that Christians abide by the ten commandments too, even they are from the old testament. Well then, how about Deuteronomy 10:18-19:
"He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt."
Before I move on, the aspect of the poor needs to be discussed a little more. Budget director Mick Mulvaney once said that Meals on Wheels was a waste of taxpayer money, and although I think he's more of a huckster than a pro-lifer, I think it's an obvious tell tale of the right in this country. The house narrowly passed a farm bill that would also make most able-bodied adults have to show proof of working 20 hours a week or job training to get $125 a month for food. Or as DCReport.org says, "Obviously, this is targeting of the poor to pay for increases in military spending and corporate tax cuts." (That quote makes me think of something MLK once said, but conservatives hate MLK other than when he said you should judging people by the content of their character, which is the card they use to hide their bullshit).
The U.N. wrote about poverty in America (though conservatives would argue against the U.N. because conservatives are actually the spoiled brats) saying:
"In practice, the United States is alone among developed countries in insisting that, while human rights are of fundamental importance, they do not include rights that guard against dying of hunger, dying from a lack of access to affordable health care or growing up in a context of total deprivation."
Caring for human rights, but caring for food and shelter and shit, not so much, just like the pro-life movement. Care about the fetus, but after that, not so much.
One smarter than I could spend a lot of time just discussing the bullshit of the pro-life movement through a purely economic-poverty lens. From here on out I want to discuss the environmental aspect of the full-of-shit pro-life movement, because that is important as well (and our culture is good at forgetting about the environment). First of all, forcing someone to give birth to a child in a bad environment is really evil enough. If a poor mother wants to keep the child while living in a bad environment, I feel the system should try and help the best that it and we can. If a woman gets pregnant living in an environment that makes her feel she's not ready, and worries the future of the child would be bad, I feel it's her right for an abortion. What about those living in an environment of poverty, what about an environment that is a ecologically a bad environment?
Why would the pro-life movement care about the environment of nature, even though it's the most important environment we need to survive? It would just mean the second coming of Christ in their eyes (Hells yeah baby!!!). As the pro-lifers complain about abortion you don't hear them discuss what a team of ecologists and economists predict, that the ocean will be void of salt-water fish by 2045. The causes are obvious for those living in the real world; overfishing, pollution, habitat loss (dead zones), and climate change (not real to fuck-heads).
If the pro-life movement wanted to care about life, open-top-removal coal mining would be a serious issue. For the morons that don't know what mountain top removal is. Mountaintop removal is when a coal company blows the top off a mountain to get coal. Here's what it's like to live in these communities, as Chris Hedges writes in 'Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt':
"Disease in the coalfields is rampant. The coal ash deposits have heavy concentrations of hexavalent chromium, a carcinogen. Cancer, like black lung disease, is an epidemic. Kidney stones are so common that in some communities nearly all the residents have had their gallbladders removed. More than half a million acres, or eight hundred square miles, of the Appalachians have been destroyed. More than five hundred mountain peaks are gone, along with an estimated one thousand miles of streams, which provide most of the headstreams for the eastern United States."
Chris Hedges also writes of what it's like to be a townsperson:
"Eighteen-wheeler coal trucks rumble down the back roads. They spew clouds of coal dust into the air. Black grit covers the sides of the roads, the trees and the ground. It coats lawns and the fronts of houses. It blankets cars and lawn furniture. It leaves a film of grime on windows and seeps inside houses. Mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, manganese, beryllium, chromium, and other carcinogenic substances from coal saturate the landscape. You eat it. You drink it. You breathe it. In the elementary schools there are lines of inhalers in the nurse's office for the boys and girls."
The pro-life movement doesn't care about children that have their own individual inhalers at their schools, because these children are children. If they were fetuses, pro-lifers would be up in arms; "How dare these fetuses have to already use inhalers?" If these people are adults and need an inhaler, "buy you're you lazy asshole!"
Before I continue I want to stress that people in these communities are pro-lifers, and that the main point of this blog is that those in power of the pro-life movement, along with the macro-element of the movement is what I'm discussing. If those in power actually cared, they would mention people like Maria Gunnoe, whom Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco interview in West Virginia:
"The coal companies control everything, including what my kids learn in school.. My son's school textbook says that surface mining leaves the land in better condition once the mining is over. The coal companies and the government depend on us to be uneducated and moldable. I recently adopted my six-year-old nephew. Mountaintop removal scares him. We drive through the twilight and literally see mountains being pushed into the valleys. This is terrifying to a child. The disassembling of mountains-what does that message send to our kids?"
From the pro-life perspective, it means your children aren't worth shit.
For pro-lifers it doesn't matter that Maria Gunnoe says "the best experts say we got about twenty-two years of coal left... But no one is thinking ahead. We should be figuring something out, and we should be doin' it quick, otherwise our kids will be left with no energy, no water, and no plans for what to do."
For pro-lifers Trump promised "clean-coal" and that's good enough for them because of whatever reason (Building solar panels and wind-mills piss them off, and why?).
Mary Miller in her eighties, describes what she's seen for children in West Virginia:
"Children would come in off the school ground covered with coal dust. The school cooks had to rewash the pots and cooking utensils every morning to get off the coal dust. They put everything in plastic bags the night before to keep them clean. The school was finally closed, mainly because of the coal dust."
The accounts of people in West Virginia or any of their actions to try and make the environment one in which they can survive in is unimportant to the pro-life movement or the right. Just look at the goofball who gives Bible studies to congress and Trump's cabinet, Ralph Drollinger. The topic of one of Raplh Drollinger's studies was on "radical environmentalism," because according to Ralph, America is shifting away from Christianity and towards the "false religion of Radical Environmentalism." Drollinger thinks it's stupid to think that man could impact the earth;
"To think that man can alter the Earth's ecosystem-when God remains omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent in the current affairs of mankind-is to more than subtly espouse an ultra-hubristic, secular worldview relative to the supremacy and importance of man."
First of all, man is not as important for life on earth as we know it to exist than say, bacteria or bees. Furthermore, humans are actually only bad for the environment as the human race continues to shrink wild-natural habitats and deforesting rain forests. If man can't alter the ecosystem, what is deforestation or mountaintop removal? Sounds like man altering the ecosystem, but then again our culture has a distain for the world so those may not be "altering" actions. When it comes to God and the environment I have some goddamn questions. When I quote what it's like for people living in West Virginia, the pollution, the sickness, the destruction. How can people believe humans can't impact the environment? Oh yeah, it's called modern-American conservatism. For people like Drollinger and those in the pro-life movement, it's unnecessary to read reports by scientists because of their "secular worldview." Further, you definitely know what they would say about U.N. reports, because the right hates the U.N.
In the United Nations report on poverty in the United States, there is a section of the report that highlights the pro-life movement's sanctimonious notion of being pro-life:
"Poor and rural communities throughout the United States are often located close to polluting industries that pose an imminent and persistent threat to their human right to health. At the same time, poor communities benefit very little from these industries, which they effectively subsidize because of the low tax rates offered by local governments to the relevant corporations."
Of course though, the right loves Trump because he will bring about "clean coal" (jobs, Ha! that's just a joke), he's cutting taxes (for the rich), and cutting regulations (because who cares about the health of society).
Speaking of Coal from earlier and Trump's weird love for it (not really), The U.N. wrote about that as well:
"Poor communities suffer especially from the effects of exposure to coal ash... it contains chemicals that cause cancer, development disorders and reproductive problems.."
You would think that the pro-life movement would care about waste that cause reproductive problems, but the pro-life movement's idea of pro-life is very limited..
Read part 2....
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