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A European’s View On So-Called “Pro-Life”
Why it’s not about facts or reason or moral values but really about control.
After living and traveling widely across the USA for twenty-seven years, it’s an enormous relief to be back in Europe. This is because the USA is a deeply sick society that resembles more closely a medieval theocracy than any modern nation.
This is most clearly seen in the battle over women’s reproductive rights that has troubled the USA since the end of World War II.
On the one side are people who feel that ultimately women should have the right to make decisions over their own bodies. On the other side are people who believe that women should not be permitted to make decisions about their own bodies.
This latter group are universally religious and for the most part poorly-educated and with modest cognitive abilities. They are also strident and willing to employ tactics that are intellectually incoherent and morally reprehensible.
Which means they are winning.
Best of all, the anti-choice group have branded themselves as “Pro-Life” which sounds lovely. Who isn’t pro-life? None of us wake up in the morning and say to ourselves, “I’m anti-life today.”
But the supposedly pro-life people in the USA almost universally support private ownership of…
