Are you pro-birth, rather than pro-life?

You are pro-birth, not pro-life, if:

You don't believe in affordable universal health care for all. Especially for the mother and fetus but then of course a fetus grows into a child and then to an adult.

You don't believe in affordable, universal care and support for special needs babies, children and adults.

You don't adopt, foster care or help support a needy child/children. In September of 2014 there were 415,129 children in foster care and only 50,644 were adopted and 22,392 youths aged out of the system without being placed with a permanent family per The Department of Health and Human Services.

You don't help a single parent with money and especially your time.

You don't support the availability of healthy affordable food for all.

You don't believe in shelter for all. There were over 2.5 million homeless children at some point in 2013, per National Center of Family Homelessness.

You don't believe in tighter gun control. 2,733 children, age 11 and under have been killed by firearms from 1999 through 2013, which equals 16 children per month; per Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

You believe in the death penalty. The death penalty is pro death, not pro life. One can believe in the death penalty and be pro birth but you are not pro life, no matter what you tell yourself.

You don't believe in 16 years (pre-K through two years post high school) of affordable education for all. This includes but not limited to: on the job training, trade school, community college and of course an under graduate degree.

Jerry Loftis

Elgin