How to Use “Pro-Life”

To get the best results, we turn to experts. We look to those with whom we attribute the proper knowledge or convictions to help guide us in our decision-making in many areas of life. So, who is best to show us how to use the term, “pro-life” to get results?

Being Pro-Life

There are two groups of people, distinct and often diametrically opposed. Are there some people in both camps? Well, yes, there are a few. So, does it matter which group you pay attention to? I would say that depends on what you’re looking for. Do you want to use the term to provide resources to those in need? Or are you using the term as a way to endear yourself to others and perhaps, garner support for your campaign?

That desperate pregnant girl, who’s parents “will kill her”, at least in her mind, will find help when the term is correctly used. Organizations will use it to appeal to the hearts and minds of people that have the means to contribute to their efforts. Groups use it to gather gifts for baby showers or help for elderly assistance. Individuals will use it when the ask their friends and neighbors to support them in a walkathon or other fundraising campaign. Missionaries to the unborn will use it to solicit prayers for their internships or volunteering time. Public speakers use it to let people know they will help rally their local members to action. Activists use it to differentiate themselves from the indifferent and those who advocate for the imposed death of others deemed less valuable.

All worthy and acceptable ways of using the term. I implore you to use it to accomplish all of the above.

Using “Pro-Life”

However; there is another way that it is used. It is during election cycles that it is used inappropriately.

Candidates, usually Republicans, use it to reach the social conservatives. There is a large segment of society that clearly understands that to be pro-life is the paramount issue, that the right to life is first in a string of rights that do not exist without the first. Without life, nothing else matters. Dead people do not care about taxes, the economy, jobs, or regulations of any kind. They listen for key words like ‘pro-life’, ‘liberty’, and ‘family’.

When a politician uses the term, how do you know which camp they are in? Are they genuinely interested in protecting the right to life for all people? Do they have elitist exceptions? Are they simply using the term without convictions to back them up when bills come before them that call for compromise?

How would you tell? If they are using the term in their campaign materials, you believe them. But what if that’s not the whole truth. They may believe they are using the term in good faith. But when it comes right down to a bill that would choke pro-life organizations or fund Abortion vendors, they vote for it.

Actually ProLife

Being truly pro-life means filtering every decision in that way, most especially if those decisions will affect others lives or deaths, as in funding Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood kills over 320,000 of the smallest most vulnerable human beings. Funding them means contributing to their deaths. Pro-life people don’t do that. Pro-life people find it repugnant to force taxpayers to be complicit in the heinous crime of ripping babies limb from limb. Planned Parenthood has also been caught repeatedly trafficking the little bodies of some of the babies. Pro-life people would never fund a mechanism that fosters the continued butchering of innocents for science.

But what if there is no voting record? Or what if the record is limited by not having roll call votes or select data was used that appeared favorable, but unfavorable data was left out. This happens all the time, inadvertently, of course.

Sometimes it is an innocent mistake. A source takes voting records or survey results and makes an assessment without all the facts. They then disseminate the inaccurate results. Be wary of ratings. A smart person can make statistics say anything they want.

So, how do you tell? If you have no voting record or limited information, the best you can do is ask. In most states, that isn’t too difficult. In New Hampshire, it is quite a task. That’s why it is said, “All politics is local.” You will vote for your neighbors here. You need to ask them. I intend to. Don’t let candidates misuse the term, ‘pro-life’.