Culture of Life is Easy

The culture of life is simple and easy to understand. Life begins when the sperm meets the egg. Once fertilization has occurred, that child should be protected at all cost. The culture of life doesn't need to consider how women of color don't have access to quality prenatal care, how they are rarely believed or taken seriously by healthcare professionals or how they die in childbirth at 5 times the rate of white women. The culture of life doesn't have to bother itself with considering that 30% of pregnancies end in miscarriages or still births. Neither do we need to consider fetal complications, birth defects, incompatibilities with life or the well-being of the pregnant person. The culture of life will ban all abortions no matter what. It will criminalize doctors and people who have abortions and neglect the vast history that proves when abortion is illegal, it just becomes unsafe and causes death by sepsis. None should bother to learn history. Instead, focus on the millions of murders of unborn children each year at the hands of the abortion industry. The culture of life doesn't need to consider how toxic masculinity needs women and children's bodies to feed it's unending blood lust. Intimate partner violence may remain safely behind closed doors for women and men to settle with their own guns. The culture of life can conveniently neglect to consider how gun violence against women, children, black and brown bodies has become an acceptable byproduct of the gun industry's need for profit. The culture of life can conveniently co-opt the language of pro-choice only when it comes to wearing masks as a public safety solution for pandemic. The culture of life will always wear a grin of self-satisfaction and a mantle of piousness while stabbing every attempt at true liberation. The culture of life is a farce. Scratch below its surface and there is death, violence, toxicity and fear of pleasure, fear of freedom, fear of joy, fear of life. The culture of life cozies up to 350,000 deaths in the U.S. because mask wearing is ungodly and it is good to sacrifice the elderly and those in prison to the death god in return for giving capitalism a fighting chance. Plus you wouldn't want to upset all these gun-owning right wing nut jobs that refuse to wear a mask. They vote after all and we need their votes.