Term:pro-life
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The term "pro-life" is a code word for anti-abortion and anti-birth control attitudes and/or policies.
Far from displaying the reverence for all life advocated by Albert Schweitzer, or eco-centric lifeways, it is aimed at a protective attitude toward a very narrow set of life -- humans from the instant of conception to the moment of birt. Before this time there is no attention lavished on the social and economic conditions that would tend toward a stable marriage, a safe pregnancy, and a healthy baby. After this time there is no concern for the economic and social conditions under which the infant, child, and adult will eventually live. The authoritarian mind-set of the people who would force a woman to bring a baby to term even had she been raped is frequently manifested as a punitive attitude toward any eventual misbehavior of the part of the resulting progeny, a willingness to see these children grow up in poverty when their parents can make only minimum wages, and a cavalier attitude toward sending the same progeny off to war to support a heedless and authoritarian approach toward international relations.
As with many of the other ideals espoused by pro-lifers, one rarely sees any concrete indications that these expectations are meant to apply to their advocates themselves. Pro-life advocates express outcomes that they intend to see manifested in the lives of the people who come under their control.
Catholics sometimes use the related term:culture of life.
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There are many other inter-related questions, terms, claims, arguments, related to this, all of which combine in non-obvious ways. See Frameshop: Political Philosophy of Sex.
