Prolife/Abolitionism

It is true that Roe v Wade is not a law. It is a judicial ruling that has been treated as law, but it really isn't a law. It isn't any more binding than an executive order, but they are both enforced as law.

Some abolitionists are promoting the idea that Roe v Wade was treated like a law because of prolife organizations, or "faux-life" organizations as they call them. That simply is not true.

Prolife organizations reacted to what government officials and officers of the law did. Ruling officials took Roe v Wade as law, and enforced it as law -- many with a strong, unreasonable hand in favor of it as law. So, "faux-life movements" came out in opposition. They did not open death pits. No, they went to the pits to protest and offer help. They responded. They did not initiate the slaughter.

It was this movement that saved thousands of babies, and turned back as least as many mothers, offering help and assistance along the way -- long before abolition groups existed. The truth is many pro-lifers were actually abolitionists. We were working to end all abortion. Pro-life was merely the tag used to set us apart from the pro-aborts.

Opposition was stiff, too. Many in the prolife effort were arrested, abused, and imprisoned for their efforts. I'm not talking about those who broke the law, either. No, I'm talking about those who took up the children's case gently, but with sincerity, pleading for children's lives and offering help out of their own pockets. Even I, though my main thing for a time was offering free handmade baby blankets, was treated as public enemy number one. Officers assured me I deserved to be run over while standing on the sidewalk or have my children shot for holding balloons! This wasn't unusual, either. No, this is the way authorities treated this judicial ruling. It is the way some still do.

There is a unreasonable hatred for pro-life groups now, but there are a lot of mothers and children extremely glad we were out there doing something when most were doing nothing. Yes, some leaders, and, admittedly, some followers, were not set on ending the atrocity. And, yes, they took in funds that were more about supporting themselves, but you throw out the baby in the wash when you blame them for everything.

Give credit where credit is due. Prolife groups took up the children's case before there was an abolitionist movement. They motivated, organized, educated, and protested. Some did the very best they knew how. Instead of hating them, and calling on others to hate them, why don't abolitionists just do the work. If they're really interested in ending abortion, why don't they work to that end; rather than, expending so much energy to abolish the ones who've been hard at it all this time? Or do they have their own unholy agenda?

There is plenty of work to do and far too few workers. Yet, this new group of abolitionists would alienate those who have been working all this time. Seems a little counterproductive to me.