Are Pro-Life Groups Hypocritical (after the child is born)?

Maybe. Or maybe it's asking too much if them to fulfill every role in raising a child.

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Does pro-life support end after birth? That is an interesting little accusation, I suppose, along the lines of an accusation of hypocrisy against the pro-life movement. The idea that you want the children to be born, but then you don't want anything, you don't care about them or follow up with them after they've been born. Well, I think that's a little bit of an unfair accusation to level against them, but I see where it comes from, and I'd like to give a little answer to it, maybe. So I played football. Late grade school through high school, managed for a couple years after that. And the point of this illustration is that the quarterback holds the football for a little bit. Running back holds the football for a little bit. Referee holds the football for a little bit. If a lineman has to hold the football for a little bit, well, that kinda happens on accident and is not the primary way of doing things. It's usually a sign things went wrong. But the point is that we pass off responsibility to somebody whose specialty best fits that responsibility. Quarterback for throwing it accurately down the field due to all his practice throwing the ball accurately. Running back with his feet that are generally faster than the quarterback. Lineman, if he needs to fall on it, simply has to protect it for a little while. And then the referee, of course, in the manner of uh oh, just getting it from one play to the next play. So each person hands off the responsibilities after it comes to them and they have done their bit. So then when pro-life organizations get to the point where, all right, they supported the mother, they supported the system that helped the child to be born, off and on, they hand off responsibility to the next charity. That's probably gonna be your charity shops where you can get one year, one month-old clothing for a dollar a piece that your one-month-old is gonna grow out of in one month, anyways. Uh, you got your food charities, food shelves, and the like. If nothing else, sometimes you got a local person who's got a little bit of extra food left over and is willing to let you have it. But that helps you with the feeding and the clothing of the child, but is not necessarily within the pro-life organization's purview, nor within their specialty, nor within really their front-facing policy platform. And then after that, you hand them off to the schools, which for all the flaws of the public schools, and there are many, I do at least appreciate some recognization that the parents might need help getting more advanced information to the children so that the children can continue to improve upon their lot eventually by their own knowledge, by their own strength, and improving upon their lot does come down to the local economy, which is not necessarily huge in uh political pressure to for kids to have you know have the chance to be born and to live, but their interest is in getting work from the child and rewarding that child with a little bit of pain. So I think it's a little unfair to claim that a single organization lacks the uh follow-through and care and compassion. Quite often they try to support all the way through, with the point being to get the child and the parent to where they no longer need to lean on the charity. That's where the best charities do try to go. To say, during this time of stress, difficulty, when you are weak from giving birth to the child, when there's postpartum depression to work through, when there's legal forms and medical bills and hospital visits for the new one. Yeah, and then and then you say, well, now that now what? Now you just hand them off. Well, the point is to get them on their own feet so they don't need to be handed off, but they can be handed off realistically up through the grade schools. After which point it really should be expected that a child and parents and family are supposed to be able to manage themselves. This, of course, helps keep materials and resources free to help the next batch of parents because people ain't stopped giving birth just because Roe v. Wade happened. And so I think that's a different way to look at it. So maybe some organizations are just interested in the big pressers and the big political movements and the anti-abortion rallies and the big things, and then don't care too much after the children are born because they gotten their good their uh good boy feelings out of it. But maybe, just maybe, one organization does not need to do the whole work. Oh, and a corollary. The one organization that should be there for the raising of the child the whole way through is the child's parents, their family. So that instead of getting handed off, they only get the hand they need to keep a continuation of the child raising, not just the child creating. Cheers.