{"id":7770,"date":"2026-08-12T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:07:36","slug":"the-thinking-kat-the-pro-life-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=7770","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking &#8216;Kat: The &#8216;Pro-Life&#8217; Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raise your hand if you deem yourself to be pro-life. By pro-life, you are probably someone who opposes abortion in most or all its forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now ask yourself if you support president Trump&#8217;s executive order regarding vaccinations, and RFK Jr&#8217;s attitude and approach to medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you support Trump&#8217;s executive order, you don&#8217;t really have any business calling yourself pro-life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you oppose social programs aimed at resolving poverty, homelessness and disease, you should not think of yourself as pro-life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this likely to be galling to some people? Perhaps. However, if you are pro-life up to the moment of birth, and then in favour of everyone for themselves, you are in fact only a forced-birther. If you think that efforts to resolve the ills that unrepentent greed causes are somehow unfair and that people should be left to fend for themselves, you are not pro-life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being pro-life <strong>should<\/strong> mean giving a damn about people whilst they are <strong>alive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you really want to be pro-life, address the gross inequalities in our world, address the issues caused by unchecked greed. Until then, you are a forced-birther, nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=7095\">Back to The Thinking &#8216;Kat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raise your hand if you deem yourself to be pro-life. By pro-life, you are probably someone who opposes abortion in most or all its forms.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=7770\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Thinking &#8216;Kat: The &#8216;Pro-Life&#8217; Hypocrisy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-society","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761046212660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}