The GOP is often described as America’s pro-life political party. In reality, however, the GOP is not pro-life. At best, it’s merely anti-abortion. At worst, it’s simply misogynistic. Regardless, the Republican Party’s concern for human dignity ends the moment someone is actually born. After that, it’s the coldness and cruelty of Ayn Rand and social Darwinism, all the way down…
…In the end, abortion is a question of fundamental social justice, not personal righteousness. If we want to reduce the prevalence of abortion, or even eliminate it, then we must attack its root causes – chronic poverty, hopelessness, systemic barriers to equality and access to opportunity and a disordered form of extreme individualism endemic throughout our culture.
Michael Stafford via winged keel and crumpet
