the-womanifesto:

Today we had the the pro-life group out on campus with 4,000 little white crosses to represent the 4,000 abortions that occur each day.

You really do nothing at all by setting up some crosses and a booth where you pretend that you’re really bummed out that these potential people didn’t actually happen. Why don’t you try focusing on the people who are actually here and suffering and dying and not living full and potential lives? REALLY make a change in a LIVING person’s life and save the ones who are about to die because they don’t have clean drinking water or because they are abused or they are hungry.

That’s the problem with these pro-life groups. They spend so much time on people that don’t exist and not enough time on the one’s that are here. Once it’s out of the womb, you no longer crusade for its rights and well-being. You don’t worry about what will happen to it after its born.

And I know why that is. It’s easier. It’s easier to fight for a cause where you can automatically set yourself up for failure and it’s still ok because then you can just set up a memorial and blame other people for your failure. You don’t have to worry about looking someone in the eye and saying “I failed to help them” because you know that you’ll never have to face the ones you’re trying to help. It’s much harder to make a change in a real human being’s life. It takes so much more effort than sitting in a chair behind a table with some pamphlets. In the real world, trying to help a human being means doing more than giving a smile, a piece of candy and hoping for the best. “Pro-life” advocacy is slacktivism at its finest.

FINALLY someone articulates why the anti-choice chalkings on campus get under my skin so badly. Thank you.

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)