What Would Seem to Me to Be Very ‘Pro-Life’

by Ernie McCray

I see the “Pro-lifers”
in the abortion conversation
with all their
“It Kills Children”
implications,
essentially
giving no
indication,
in their frustration,
that they really care about children
by any stretch of the imagination,
based on how they,
driven by ideals of
fire and brimstone
and eternal damnation,
forever harp on
children unborn
while so many children
who exist,
who breathe air,
lack healthcare
or have very little to eat
or anywhere
to stay
while others
have no way
of getting away
from being used,
misused,
and abused,
some growing stagnant
on adoption lists,
or often finding themselves
in a foster home
that was so deemed
by some official
who was remiss
in his duties.
Some are
sent to war
under the guise
of doing good.
And there are those
who fight wars
in fractured neighborhoods
created due to
redlining
and ghettoizing
and demonizing
by politicians up to no good.

How could anyone
engage in “sanctity of life”
and “right-to-life”
sermonizing
and proselytizing
without emphasizing
what’s missing
in the lives of children
whom society
has marginalized?

Oh, if they could somehow
suspend
the energy
they expend
trying to end
the rights women
now have
to not bring
a child into the world,
might they then
open their eyes
to the cries
of the children
who are alive
yet are barely getting by –
and work
to better their lives?

That, to me,
would seem
very “Pro-Life.”