Let’s try pro-quality of life

[Shallah Kali]

Please kick through and read. Too many good points to quote them all.

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_17587617

I don’t understand how the Christian religion can be used as grounds to take a hard line on abortion, while simultaneously giving widespread poverty a pass because it’s a "personal responsibility" issue. The poor have no more famous an advocate than Jesus Christ. However, there’s a big swath of Christians who are like die hard Michael Jackson fans that have never heard his music: They admire the man but are missing what he was all about.

I don’t understand how people who are so revved up over what a woman does in the privacy of her doctor’s office can just sit back and watch an entire generation of American children be doomed to a shorter lifespan than their parents. Obesity is more than a big health issue -- it’s a big death issue. Condemning women’s right to choose an abortion while letting "choice" be the permission for an epidemic of overweight kids is like being a school administrator who’s really only concerned with chalk.

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"Life" has to mean more than just treating women like public incubators. Truth be told a big factor in the one out of every five pregnancies ending in abortion is -- unemployment. Lack of money. Lack of resources. Being pro-life is short-sighted when it comes to living. If the goal of pro-lifers is eliminating all abortions, they should start by eliminating the reasons for abortions. Unwanted pregnancy is number one, so they should be for birth control. The second is financial. So they should be for what the right wing likes to refer to despairingly as "socialism."

What would a pro-quality-of-life movement support? A living wage for people who work for a living. A viable middle class. An economy which lifts all people, not just the uber-rich. Honest, transparent and accountable corporations and elected officials. Infrastructure. Education. Health care for all. Healthy kids.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Kick. The U.S. is not a poor country. It's a wealthy country that ignores its poor.

[DirkGently]

2. You'd think Jesus spent all his time screaming at women & gay people, not giving free healing & food