If anyone says to you “I am Pro-Life”, but defunds pre-natal and childbirth care for the poor, let him be anathema.
If anyone says to you “I am Pro-Life”, but declares rape, post-partem depression, or C-sections “pre-existing conditions” that will disallow such women access to health care for them and their children, even the unborn, let him be anathema.
If anyone says to you “I am Pro-Life”, but refuses to care for the unborn if they have congenital birth defects, let him be anathema.
If anyone says to you “I am Pro-Life”, but deliberately creates conditions that encourage or incentivize abortion, or which ignore the causes thereof, let him be anathema.
If anyone says to you, “I am Pro-Life” – except in the case of the poor, the orphan, the refugee, the criminal, or the foreigner, let him be anathema.
And if anyone says to you that there is a major pro-life party in American politics, get him to the confessional, for he is a liar and a fool.
I originally posted this to my Facebook page on 4 May a little before 21:00 Central European Time. My brief thoughts in response to support for an anti-life bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, even by a disturbing number of Catholics and other Christians. It has since been “liked” 450 times and shared 300 times, but it was requested that i share it on my blog too.
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