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“Pro-life” is a misnomer [1]

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Date: 2023-07-07

The term “pro-life” is a misnomer. What is called “pro-life” is really anti-abortion. Those who claim to be “pro-life” are usually not uniformly pro-life.

There are 15 states where abortion is banned or mostly banned. (The list is below.) These state legislatures would claim to be “pro-life”. I recently looked up the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) for all 50 states and compared the IMR in the 15 supposedly pro-life states versus the other 35 states. It turns out that the IMR is about 27% higher in the supposedly pro-life states that in the other states (6.5 infant deaths per 1000 births versus 5.1 per 1000 births). The 15 supposedly pro-life states have not taken sufficient action to lower the Infant Mortality Rate. The state legislatures could be called anti-abortion but they should not be called “pro-life”.

If a state legislature was pro-life, I submit that they would restrict access to guns in their state. I hypothesize that states that have strict abortion laws probably have lax gun control laws.

If a state legislature was pro-life, I submit that they would enact “red flag” laws, so that persons who are deemed to be a danger to themselves or others would not have ready access to guns. I hypothesize that states that have strict abortion laws probably are less likely to have red flag laws.

If a state legislature was pro-life, I submit that they would not have the death penalty on the books. I hypothesize that states that have strict abortion laws probably are more likely to have the death penalty on the books.

Why does it matter? By claiming to be “pro-life”, they are somehow implying that others are not “pro-life”. Clearly, the vast majority of people are pro-life, in the broader sense.

(The states that ban or mostly ban abortion are: AL, AR, FL, GA, ID, KY, LA, MS, MO, OK, SD, TN, TX, WV, and WI.)

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