Is Anyone Really Pro-Life
Is anyone else out there having a hard time figuring out how one can possibly reconcile a claim to being 'pro-life' with being opposed to strict environmental regulation of industry? I just don't get it. The so-called pro-life forces in Washington are proclaiming a great victory in pushing through a law making it a separate crime if a fetus is destroyed during commission of a violent federal crime. Note that key modifying word 'violent.' Apparently destroying fetuses which women want to bring to term during commission of non-violent federal crimes is okay. Pity. I was looking forward to the criminal actions against all of those chemical plants that have higher than normal miscarriage rates downstream. Not to mention the issues of air pollution.
There seem to be pretty seriously mixed messages here. It seems to me that if the conservatives were really pro-life, that would outweigh issues like corporate profits, wouldn't it? Sure, it's a classic liberal claim that the right cares more for money than human lives, but isn't this a stark vindication of that claim? It's one thing to take the traditional conservative position about the natural juxtaposition of high-polluting industries with low-income areas simply being a result of the land in such areas being cheap. It's another to defend the existence of toxic emission in populated areas at all.
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