Legal reform. Specifically reform geared towards ending execution as a punishment. If everyone has the right to live their life from its natural beginning at conception to its natural end with death, and nobody has the right to deprive another of that right, then how is it consistent to deem capital punishment okay?
I'm sorry, but I couldn't sit by and watch my German Shepherd writhe in pain from bloat. He was old, and that euthanasia was an act of mercy. If a child of mine were in that kind of pain, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it, who am I to deny my child that one last act of mercy?
In complete honesty I'm on the fence about this one. My biggest problem comes from the fact that there's often still a chance for recovery.
Eh, yeah, take care of your health I guess. But if you're referring to universal healthcare or a single payer system... those things do more to impede healthcare than to provide it.
It was a reference to both. We need to be working locally to expand accessibility and quality of affordable healthcare, especially in chronically underserved areas. A universal healthcare system would seem to me like the exact kind of thing that would offer support to even larger numbers of people otherwise incapable of affording regular medical care. Why would that be counterproductive?
In what sense? Taking from others forcefully? Relying on others for charity? Or not letting lack of wealth stop you from achieving?
Anti-poverty as in supportive of measures to reduce the breadth and severity of poverty in society. Generous welfare. Universal healthcare coverage. Free job training and public works investment. Raising taxes, especially corporate and on the highest earning brackets, to pay for all of this.
A person's welfare shouldn't be reliant on the government. Your welfare is your own. If you are truly pro life, you will do anything to protect yours, too.
People shouldn't have to be, no, but that's what we have right now: a little over five out of every hundred people in this country relying on a government check just to help get them through the month. I'm not saying it should remain that way indefinitely, but I am saying that becoming independent takes time and people have to eat. Even if we do manage to drop unemployment levels, we're still going to need a strong safety net for the inevitable falls and all the people who will never be able to support themselves, such as the elderly and severely disabled.
What happens when peace fails? Order must be brought to chaos. Simply put, there are times that instead of speaking softly, we use the big stick.
Non-lethal weaponry and drones immediately come to mind.
I'm not sure what this has to do with being pro life, Pedro.
Democratic peace theory - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Diplomacy really does act to prevent war in many cases.
Therein lies the problem, equality is merely an illusion. No society in the history of mankind has been able to achieve true equality among their own citizens. True, we can fight for it, but it is a losing fight. It is like trying to make both poles of a magnet the same alignment. You will fail unceasingly. You can only give your children a better world to live in than you did.
We are a more equal society than we were last century. The color of your skin matters somewhat less in general. The sex you were born as doesn't overtly limit your choice of profession and lifestyle. We'll probably never achieve total equality, no, but it's worth fighting for in the name of improving the quality of human life.
All for it. But understand, we are anti-illegal immigration. However, if these illegals were "pro life," why would they illegally smuggle their children into a country knowing full well they could be prosecuted for a crime? The proverbial life is gone, and they spend their natural one running from the law.
Because it's worth the risk considering the place they fled. Living on the run here is better than living there and spending every day wondering when the cartels will force your children to smuggle drugs for them and every night wondering if a hit squad will target your house while you sleep.
Can I ask what that has to do with protecting life? Correct me if I'm not understanding you correctly. Life goes on whether you're sexist or not. It makes you a fool, but it doesn't endanger your life or that of a child.
It has broad effects, both on children and adults. I could get into them in a separate conversation.
Racism... most of these issues you list deal with quality of life, and few with protecting it.
Racism affects your quality of life if you're white. It's often a deciding factor in your personal safety if not. Think about how many deaths you wouldn't have heard about this year if non-white people could walk around in public without the risk of being murdered in cold blood by the exact same people they're paying to protect them?
Once again, you can ensure all the quality of life for children you want, but what good is quality of life to an unborn child who was brutally aborted in his/her mother's womb? For a child to enjoy it, they must be living it.
A harmonious society doesn't have riots. It doesn't have as rife poverty, substance abuse, or domestic violence. Those are all quality of life issues that can and do kill people even if abortion didn't.
