So I am pro-life but not pro-fetus; pro the life of the baby and the life of the mother and in fact all life. The pro-fetus group calls themselves pro-life but they are actually only pro-fetus. As soon as that baby is born, they want nothing to do with it. They want nothing to do with making sure the baby is properly fed, they want no responsibility to assure it is properly clothed, or that the baby gets a good education and that the mother has the resources to give the baby a chance to grow up to be a productive citizen.

In fact, some people in the "pro-life" movement are strongly opposed to using taxpayers money to protect mothers and children. I have met "pro-life"-ers who say things like "if we make it too easy for these people, they will just have more welfare babies." The implication is that they want to make sure that the mother gets punished for having a baby out of wedlock: "If she suffers enough and sees how bad she and the baby have it, maybe she won't be so quick to have another illegitimate child."

Ok. So making babies suffer is a family value.

Wait a minute. These people are not only not pro-life. Their position is immoral to the core.

It is immoral to bring an unwanted child into this world and then structure society to assure the child will suffer for a lifetime for the "sins" of his or her mother.

I'm sorry. Whenever a "pro-life"-er plays the morality card, those of us who actually care about morality need to scream at the top of our lungs and call attention to the moral fraud this group is perpetrating on our nation.

A constitutional amendment to protect the fetus should only be considered if the amendment also provides for protection of the baby and mother. (Hide and watch the conservatives run from that one.)