They need to say what they mean, damn it. The only "life" they care about is that which is growing in a woman's uterus. They don't give 2 whoops in Hades about anything except making sure it stays in there until it's able to survive on the outside.
Once that life vacates the uterus, they don't give a single fuck what happens to it, to the uterus that housed and then expelled it, or (especially) the owner of that uterus. They have no intention of providing any resources to make sure its needs are met. As long as it gets born, that's a win, as far as they're concerned. What happens to it after that--whether it has enough to eat, a safe place to live, access to health care, or anything else--is not their concern. Their job was to make sure it got born; the rest is somebody else's problem.
That's because they don't actually care about life; what they care about is birth. And they don't care AT ALL about the life of the person who has to do the birthing. They care about making sure she stays pregnant long enough for birth to happen, but whether she stays healthy, or happy, or even sane, is irrelevant to them.
To these people, women are merely incubators, not actual people with wants, needs, hopes, and dreams of their own. Women don't matter to them, beyond their basic biological functions of becoming impregnated and staying that way until what's in their uterus is old enough to breath, eat, digest food, and basically stay alive without the help of an umbilical cord and a placenta.
The most infuriating part of the whole mess is their hypocrisy. It's not cool that they regard getting born as the only thing that matters, but lying about it makes the whole thing even worse. I've been saying for a long time that the term "pro life" was created to imply that those who think abortion should be legal are "pro-death." I still think so. It's time to start calling a spade a spade: the correct term is not pro life but pro birth.
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