As long as the unwed (or, as of a day or two ago, wed-but-liberal) mother is conservative/Christian, then they have a right to life and their babies should be celebrated.
But if their mothers are liberal, or another religion, their mothers should abort them.
I read those sentiments twice on a FR thread yesterday. Twice. From two different posters. I couldn’t respond because I was mobile, but I was so disgusted.
Only one single person disagreed.
FR is no longer pro-life by any reasonable measure if that sort of posting to go on unchallenged.
Hypocrites? Yeah, in spades.
Consistent? Not by any measure.
>>But if their mothers are liberal, or another religion, their mothers should abort them. I read those sentiments twice on a FR thread yesterday. Twice. From two different posters. I couldn’t respond because I was mobile, but I was so disgusted.<<
I agree. I was not one of those posters nor would I ever suggest such a thing. I agree that is disgusting and is an agenda-driven concept — and NOT pro-life.
>>Consistent? Not by any measure.<<
I am trying to help use not be like our foes — we either have principles or we simply have agendas (as I said upthread). If we wouldn’t fete Sheila Jackson-Lee’s single daughter then we should be not do so in this case.
Well, as far as baby mamas are concerned, maybe people have complicated feelings.
My own view is that these girls should give their babies up for adoption. It is not a good thing that so many girls nowadays want to be single mothers.
So on the one hand, we don’t want to see abortions. On the other hand, we don’t want single motherhood either.
I’ve heard that there are millions of couples who want to adopt children. I think it would be good to connect the unwed mothers up with those who want to adopt.
Back in the old days, girls traditionally gave their babies up for adoption. Many today don’t like that the social pressures in the old days caused many to do that, but the fact is, both the babies and the unwed mothers had better lives when adoption was more common.
Nowadays, most of these baby mamas and their children have very bad lives. And we subsidize it with welfare and other public assistance programs.