John Pavlovitz: It's Too Bad the Pro-Life Right is So Violently Anti-Life

[Dennis Donovan]

John Pavlovitz - It's Too Bad the Pro-Life Right is So Violently Anti-Life

John Pavlovitz
Mar 30, 2025

Conservatives love embryos.

/snip/

They speak effusively about them in conversation, publicly revere them at rallies, shed crocodile tears over them in Op-Eds, accost strangers entering clinics over them, viciously troll people on social media because of them, and sermonize on street corners about them.

They even claim to have voted for a reprehensible monster who they'd never otherwise tolerate to lead them, solely on their behalf.

Republican people of faith regularly fall all over themselves, carry on wildly, and tear their garments in showy grief over embryos; unleashing all manner of histrionics at those they deem a danger (those who believe in a woman's right to have autonomy over her own body.)

And they do all of this (they claim), because they believe that embryos are human beings and they want those beloved in-utero human beings to be cherished, defended, and protected at all costs, which all sounds quite admirable were that the whole story—though it isn't.

The problem with their breathless, tearful zealotry, is that once these embryos are no longer embryos—these supposed life-lovers often don't treat them like they're at all human. Prior to departing the birth canal, they’re sacred. After that, they’re screwed.

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-too-bad-the-pro-life-right-is

[Scrivener7]

1. This is what the "pro-life" right wants. We need to

hang this on their necks.
https://democraticunderground.com/100220189731

[rubbersole]

2. George Carlin has a famous diatribe saying exactly that.

[mac56]

3. They love the babies until they're born.

[Martin Eden]

6. They love the embryos because the unborn give them a moral high horse

On which they assert their moral superiority. It gives them license for cruelty to anyone outside the womb who doesn't look like them or embrace their narrow minded self serving ideology.

[mwmisses4289]

4. He is only reiterating something that

many other writers (mostly women) have been saying for years: Pro-lifers ain't.

[Karadeniz]

5. Theyre not screaming in anguish at all the death and disease caused by

Canceling USAID outreach.... not a peep.....

[Dr. T]

7. I've been saying

that same thing for years. The minute they leave the birth canal, take away their health care and their food and let them live under a freeway overpass.

These people are NOT pro-life. They are anti-abortion. The expression on their faces is priceless when I say that. You can see the hair on the back of their neck stand up.

I've been tempted to get to my local Planned Parenthood early in the morning to occupy the space in front of the clinic before the anti-abortion buffoons get there. I'd like to ask them if they truly are pro-life, then why are they in front of this clinic when they could be helping those who are already born?

[Crowman2009]

8. The pro-life movement should have been renamed the surplus child labor movement.

Because shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned, states started weakening their child labor laws.

[paleotn]

9. They don't love embryos. Not really. That's some bizarre, psychological fetish.

What they do love is control. Telling others to do what they tell them to do. A very strange human trait. Strange to me anyway. To this day I can't wrap my head around it. It's most often wrapped in goofy religion which makes it double disgusting to me.

[70sEraVet]

10. So, yeah, the ideas here aren't new or groundbreaking.....

But DAMN, what a clever piece of writing!
Thanks, Donovan!

[liberalla]

11. "Prior to departing the birth canal, they're sacred. After that, they're screwed."

Great line! From sacred to screwed... This line should be used often, and repeatedly!

"Prior to departing the birth canal, they’re sacred. After that, they’re screwed.



I wonder...
Why don't Pro-Life people care about babies once they're born?

[MagickMuffin]

12. They're Screwed, then sacred, then screwed again by fascist

Prolife even if vaccines can save your very own children you CHOOSE not to.

Should we start a prolife life movement to counter act the parents who are deliberately killing their children in the name of the bible?

Let’s start controlling their behaviors. Show up on Sunday mornings with picket signs “Why are you killing your children?” Why does god punish your children? Where the prolife in deciding your very own children are not worthy of life?

[Ping Tung]

13. They're not "pro-life". They're pro-pregnancy and pro-punishing naughty women.

Last edited Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:49 PM - Edit history (1)

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." Thomas Paine

[Wounded Bear]

14. It has never been about life, it has always been about control...nt