#88: Pro-Life for ALL Life (PART 3)

【ALL Means Everyone】
The Catholic Church opposes not only abortion, but also contraceptives as a measure of birth control. Pope Francis even compares abortion to "hiring a hit man…to eliminate a human life to resolve a problem."
 
As sensational as it may sound, the Pope certainly has a point here.
 
Abortion, murder, war--a common thread is found in Attempting to resolve a problem by eliminating a human life. Here, let us dig deeper as we must not attempt to resolve a problem by eliminating life.

It’s because if we’re sincere and honest about Pro-Life, then we must advocate for all life, not only anti-abortion, but also for the life of every person, of every living soul.
 
The Vatican's editorial director Andrea Tornielli--appointed to the position by Pope Francis--praises the new US Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, but nonetheless explains those who oppose abortion could not conveniently pick and choose Pro-Life issues.
 
In fact, being for life always means to save mothers’ life; to help women living in poverty; to defend against the threat of firearms; to help economically strained families; to provide more paid-vacation in support of a parent-child quality time; to help immigrants and refugees; to save life from death penalty.

​Tornielli tries to steer the US Catholic Church away from viewing Pro-Life as one-dimensional in the American culture wars. That a true Pro-Life encompasses so much more than just an anti-abortion effort.
 
A true Pro-Life.
That is,
To save babies’ life.
To save mothers’ life.
To raise all children to save all life by eliminating the social inequality.
To protect the life of immigrant and refugee people.
To protect all life from gun violence.
To save animals’ life from those who selfishly demand for the right to bear arms by professing “Hunting is Sports.”
To save the life of African Americans and all minority people from white supremacists and police brutality.
To save all animals’ life by ending the killings for our meat-eating customs.
To save all life from death sentence.
 
Upon looking at this list, we can tell that the liberal spheres of our society--in particular the progressive people--are more inclined to advocate for a true Pro-Life. In order for the liberals to truly be Pro-Life, we must not only advocate for the women’s right to her own reproductive health choices, but also honestly face the seemingly insurmountable challenge in saving babies’ life as best we can.
 
Indeed, not everything on this list is clear-cut. For example, when a victim’s family vehemently seeks the death sentence for a vicious murderer, our hearts are broken and we feel torn.
 
Nevertheless, the fact is clear that if we’re sincere and honest about Pro-Life, then we must earnestly advocate for all life--not only anti-abortion--but also for the life of every person, of every living soul.
 
The pro-life movement in America has morphed into an anti-abortion effort driven by the conservative spheres of the society, advocating for pro-life only in the abortion cases. It’s become a one-dimensional anti-abortion movement regardless of the dangers posed to mothers’ life, regardless of pregnancy from rape or incest.
 
The more radical the conservatism gets, and the more supportive of Donald Trump who stokes fear and hatred to resurrect white supremacy, the more conservative spheres of the society become willfully ignorant of people’s life--almost pushing for anti-life only except in the case of babies’ life in abortion and their own.
 
That’s not at all true Pro-Life.

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