Pros Prose

          It's been a while since I felt like writing after the disaster of November 9th. Sometimes witnessing or being exposed to blatant  stupidity will shock one from a temporary doldrum and a letter in the local rag did it for me this morning. 

                 In an op-ed  letter of this past Sunday, the writer, probably unintentionally, laid bare an essential difference between the  two ends of the American political spectrum. The writer unleashed a modest diatribe regarding "ardent pro-abortion supporters," followed  by the mind numbing sophistry that, "If they had been aborted they probably wouldn't be alive to .......", well,  you get the picture.

        In my years as a social liberal I have never actually met an "ardent pro-abortionist."  The term "Pro-abortion" like "Obamaphone" is a meaningless term intended to convey a blatant falsehood. I know many "Pro-choice" persons who abhor abortion  and would probably be loathe to choose such an option. No one is pro-abortion, but there the   prefix "pro" takes divergent paths. Pro-choice means the belief that a woman should be free to make her own reproductive choices no matter what they be. A corollary to that is that no one without a uterus really has a stake in the matter. Period.

       Pro-life, on the other hand, means to its adherents that they should have the ability to prohibit that choice and punish those who make the choice to terminate a pregnancy. Many of those who are the most vocal also claim to be the most religiously driven! How odd, as well, that the only reference of any kind to abortion in the Bible is related to how to obtain one in the event of rape or adultery! The critical point here is forcing one's belief upon another.

        Most Progressives feel about abortion as I do about boiled okra. I would never choose to consume it, but if you feel driven to do so, it is your right. And, oh by the way,  Safelink Wireless offered the first free government cell phone in Tennessee in 2008,  during the Bush administration.