"Wanna really be Pro-Life? You gotta drive the lane"

[G_j]

-sort of an odd analogy, but this is America. :shrug:
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http://www.opednews.com/stillwater_042605_prolife_drive_the_lane.htm

Driving the lane: Why the pro-life team will never make it to the playoffs
By Jane Stillwater

www.OpEdNews.com

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If the "Culture of Life" lobby were a basketball team, they wouldn't even win a high school game. These guys are bench-sitters. You wanna really be Pro-Life? You gotta drive the lane.

Sure, it's easy for the so-called "pro-life" team to, as Dr. Carol Wolman put it, "battle fiercely to preserve the life of a woman who has been brain-dead for 15 years or clusters of human cells just fertilized -- yet turn their backs on the lives of millions around the globe who are starving and dying from curable diseases and support the killing of 100,000 Iraqis in two years for no good reason." No, this all-wimp team will never make the Pro-Life NBA.
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To quote Alanna Hartzok, "For the so-called pro-life 'Christians' to stand up against the 'culture of death' that Washington politicians are espousing, they would be forced to take a stand against the entire globalization system of control, power and wealth concentration (Iraq war deaths, poverty, starvation). On the other hand, they can 'afford' to appear very concerned about life and death issues which have no political power implications." And that do not place them in any danger or stretch the envelope in any way. Protesting Terri Shaivo's death was a very bush-league thing to do and very, very easy.
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You guys wanna REALLY be Pro-Life? Then play in the big leagues. Go on the road and play at the Baghdad superdome like Marla Ruzicka. Or, like Mother Theresa, find the nearest homeless person and star on your home team. And start demanding that the refs begin to call fouls on the riff-raff that have taken over our courts and who are destroying OUR game: Stop Bush, Wolfowitz, Sharon, Negroponte, bin Ladin, Rumsfeld, Frist and all the other death squad point-guards who are double-teaming the REAL culture of life. Let's take their multi-billion dollar contracts away and make it clear to them "If you want to be on the court, you gotta play by the rules."

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[Pow_Wow]

1. right on

"Protest the brutal and unnecessary slaughter in Haiti, Sudan, Columbia, Afghanistan, Congo, Abu Ghraib -- and the environmental suicide that will destroy our children's lives. Then up your defensive game and block all those tax welfare bucks the Bush cartel is giving away to Halliburton and Bechtel's "profit from disaster" death machines."

[G_j]

2. I don't really like the sports analogy BUT

there are some excellent quotes there.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. First of all...How can you be "pro-life" and be for the death penalty?

:wtf: All this talk of being pro life and yet they kill abortion doctors and advocate killing by the state. How dumb is that? And they don't think there's anything wrong with this. Actually, they're pro fetus and pro-forcing people to live in a shell of a body. They're ANTI baby and forgiveness. So pro-life is a misnomer.
Duckie

[Just Me]

4. Selective "pro-life": precludes advocating for life known to be alive.

I know,...really weird.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. OK...That made no sense...

But I understand because you're taking your definition from the "Freeperville Dictionary."
Duckie

[G_j]

7. weird indeed

they seem to only get 'righteous' in instances where there is substantial debate and disagreement over the definition of "life".
The billions of living people on the planet don't seem to count.
:shrug:

[G_j]

8. oops dupe..

[Mandate My Ass]

6. Excellent. I'd only add in addition to being easy and risk free

the pseudo "pro-lifers" are in love with the thought of being superior beings simply by virtue of their vocal disapproval of others. It's little wonder the republicans have no problem exploiting these people. The do-as-I-say mentality requires no effort but to denounce the actions and viewpoints of others as immoral while patting oneself on the back.

Thanks for posting the link. I have to admit I never knew of that site before. :blush: There are a lot of interesting articles there I'll be reading today.

[G_j]

9. I just stumbled on it

lots of interesting editorials