{"id":57241,"date":"2024-06-26T20:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57241"},"modified":"2024-06-26T20:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:51:49","slug":"pro-birth-not-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57241","title":{"rendered":"Pro-birth &#8230; not pro-life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am on the verge of abandoning the long-held term used to identify those who oppose a woman&#8217;s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>They call themselves &#8220;pro-life.&#8221; The reality is that they instead are &#8220;pro-birth,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why the change? It stems from the draconian measures enacted to restrict abortion in many states, including Texas. Here, legislators approved a ban on any abortion when a woman has been pregnant for six weeks or longer.<\/p>\n<p>It makes no exception for the health of the unborn babies. Consider what happened to a Dallas woman who had to go out of state to obtain an abortion because one of the twins she was carrying had no chance of survival. She obtained the abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Legislators are requiring women to give birth to children even when that act would jeopardize the health of the child and possibly destroy a woman&#8217;s ability to give birth in the future.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a pro-life position. It promotes birth &#8230;. and it is a lie!<\/p>\n<p>Should the 2024 election turn on this issue? Damn straight it should!<\/p>\n<p>The Republican nominee in waiting has bragged about how he &#8220;single-handedly&#8221; deprived women of their right to govern their own bodies. The Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, cannot let his opponent get away with that idiotic boast.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on the verge of abandoning the long-held term used to identify those who oppose a woman&#8217;s reproductive rights. They call themselves &#8220;pro-life.&#8221; The reality is that they instead are &#8220;pro-birth,&#8221; Why the change? It stems from the draconian measures enacted to restrict abortion in many states, including Texas. Here, legislators approved a ban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pro-birth &#8230; not pro-life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3751,3998,6363],"class_list":["post-57241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-pro-life","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57242,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57241\/revisions\/57242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}