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There's a difference between not volunteering at the soup kitchen every weekend even when you don't like innocent people getting shot in the head, and actively

There's a difference between not volunteering at the soup kitchen every weekend even when you don't like innocent people getting shot in the head, and actively fighting to stop staving people from getting food when you say you don't like innocent people getting shot in the head. You can have a deep respect for innocent life and not be willing or able to spend weekends in a soup kitchen. You can't have a deep respect for innocent life while working to keep innocent lives from being able to survive. "Baby murder is wrong" unless it's murder by exposure because the child was homeless, "screw the homeless!" the pro-life say or by starvation because screw the hungry! or by cancer, because screw the sick if they can't afford obscene medical costs! Pro-life people generally, don't care at all about the life of babies. They don't even care about murder. If baby food companies are killing kids by poisoning them with heavy metals they'll still decry any government regulations that would prevent that or hold baby food companies accountable. The Free Market can murder babies all day long. School shootings? No, we can't have sensible gun control laws proven to work in basically every developed nation around the globe! The pro-life say we just have live with those murders, nothing can be done! So tragic! They want to claim the moral high ground but they are buried deep under their own filth.

floxy 4y ago
Just for the non-US persons reading along, below are a few US Federal government programs for poor people. Some states (most?) have additional programs as well for some things, or supplement federal programs. - WIC (https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic) >The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk. WIC serves about half of all infants born in the United States. - Food Stamps (SNAP - https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program) - Medicaid (Health care for poor people) https://www.medicaid.gov/ - Section 8 subsidized housing (https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/710)
- trs8080 4y ago
  Are you of the belief that the conservatives who support overturning Roe also support WIC, SNAP, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing? Because the traditional conservative viewpoint is that these programs should be completely eliminated. I believe this is what OP is referring to - the same people who supposedly believe in the sanctity of human life are also the first to cut any programs that support it. So it's difficult to take their "pro-life" arguments in good faith.
- DoreenMichele 4y ago
  All those programs have a reputation for being wholly inadequate. Better to let a woman abort a baby she's not prepared for for than tell her "But you will qualify for aid programs!"

floxy 4y ago

Just for the non-US persons reading along, below are a few US Federal government programs for poor people. Some states (most?) have additional programs as well for some things, or supplement federal programs. - WIC (https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic) >The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk. WIC serves about half of all infants born in the United States. - Food Stamps (SNAP - https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program) - Medicaid (Health care for poor people) https://www.medicaid.gov/ - Section 8 subsidized housing (https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/710)

trs8080 4y ago
Are you of the belief that the conservatives who support overturning Roe also support WIC, SNAP, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing? Because the traditional conservative viewpoint is that these programs should be completely eliminated. I believe this is what OP is referring to - the same people who supposedly believe in the sanctity of human life are also the first to cut any programs that support it. So it's difficult to take their "pro-life" arguments in good faith.
DoreenMichele 4y ago
All those programs have a reputation for being wholly inadequate. Better to let a woman abort a baby she's not prepared for for than tell her "But you will qualify for aid programs!"