Is this a problem with the pro-life movement?

Um, sort of.

The emphasis isn't even on preserving "human" life -- it's focused specifically on unborn *potential* human life, while disregarding the only "human life" that's actually involved (the pregnant woman).

There's a very strong undercurrent of "punishment" in the entire movement -- the idea that "loose women who spread their legs for sex" should be punished for their actions by being *forced* to carry the embryo to term. They have no regard whatsoever for what happens after that, to the child or the mother. The "punishment for loose sex" idea is the main concept driving the movement, not respect for potential human life. Reading any of their literature makes that abundantly clear. It's also very telling that the vast majority of "pro-life" people oppose sex education, contraception for teens, and other practical ways of reducing unwanted pregnancies -- their basic position is that a woman should be abstinent, and if she isn't she should be punished.

edit: my point is made by some answers here: "If people wouldn't be immoral and irresponsible, abortion wouldn't be a problem." There's than punishment for immoral and irresponsible behavior theme I was talking about.

Peace.

Exactly!

They are fetus worshipers that care NOTHING for the maternal life. I am reviled all the time because not only am I pro-choice but I do not regret my abortion.

That gets me more hate mail than you would think but these people are idiots, if they would back off their assumptions a moment they would realize that my abortion was for an ectopic pregnancy, they are only the leading cause of maternal death in the first trimester.

They call me a murderer and do not care that I would have died if I had tried to carry that pregnancy to term. they do NOT care about women or families just that 'precious' blob of potential life.

Oh and Booth - You are WRONG!

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded in a meta-analysis of data from dozens of medical reports and studies that fetuses are unlikely to feel pain until the third trimester of pregnancy.[2][3] There is an emerging consensus among developmental neurobiologists that the establishment of thalamocortical connections (at about 26 weeks) is a critical event with regard to fetal perception of pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_pain#Medical_st...

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/294/8/9...

Fetuses cannot feel pain until at least the 28th week of gestation because they haven't formed the necessary nerve pathways, sguttays Mark Rosen, an obstetrical anesthesiologist at the University of California at San Francisco. He and his colleagues determined that until the third trimester, "the wiring at the point where you feel pain, such as the skin, doesn't reach the emotional part where you feel pain, in the brain." Although fetuses start forming pain receptors eight weeks into development, the thalamus, the part of the brain that routes information to other areas, doesn't form for 20 more weeks. Without the thalamus, Rosen says, no information can reach the cortex for processing.

http://discovermagazine.com/2005/dec/fetus-feel-pa...

Before 26 weeks, the baby can't feel pain yet.

~Pro-Choice Momma; Have had an abortion <no regrets> and I have a 13 month old daughter <no regrets>. I believe in protecting my daughter's choice.

Abortion: There is a Consensus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSQiazUvgo

that's one of the problems. The main problem is they keep losing sight of the real issue.

Women are not society's incubators.

Instead of debating pointlessly, we should all be working together toward making abortion unnecessary in the 21st century.

Why aren't we funding research for artificial wombs - which would also help premature infants?

Why aren't we funding fetal transplants into the wombs of willing surrogates, or into other animals (we routinely use animals for much less productive medical procedures).

Why aren't all the "pro-life" people adopting the millions of special needs children who are not "perfect" and therefore no one wants them. They clog our foster care system.

WHy not? Because the "pro-life" public doesn't really care about the lives of the born, or really the unborn either. They only care about exercising control over women.

Pro-life is a misnomer, as they really don't concern themselves with what happens after a child is born. Many support war, the death penalty, and some even support killing abortion providers. It would be more accurate to call them the anti-abortion movement.

No matter what lame argument you may try to propose,

don't talk about SUFFERING if your brain is unable to

comprehend the suffering of the unborn, killed in-utero.

The only problem is people who execute a human life

with no more concern than if it was a spider.

Then they try to look like kind and caring people by

prattling on about "human suffering" or the likes.

One particularly nasty psychopathic abortion queen

tried to suggest killing unborn babies enhances the

human gene pool -- just in case they may have grown

up with anti-social tendencies!!!

Never mind they could also grow up and discover the

cure for breast cancer, or something else valuable.

How is the gene pool enhanced by killers? How vile.

One of the many problems, yes.

Human suffering is something we should empathize with more than a murdered baby?

Why is the human suffering? Because they accidentally got pregnant out of wedlock? I'm sorry, but there are consequences for your actions and you should choose your actions carefully. Because of rape? There's already a great deal of suffering in rape, why make it worse by murdering the child that has no fault in the matter?

Pro-lifers are not disregarding human suffering. They're simply weighing the options.

Yes. One of many problems.

The main problem with the anti-choice movement is lies.

One lie is the Tim Tebow story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/tim-tebow...

I think so, people should have the right to die as they choose. Also, how is it "ok" to alter the life expectancy of people (to help them live longer) but a taboo if people want help to die comfotably?

No, merely an unfair criticism of the movement. The pro-life movement is a loose alliance of many people from many different walks of life and political persuasions. The only reason we are aligned is to stop the barbaric atrocity of abortion. Nothing more, nothing less.