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If the “pro-life” community was really “pro-life” instead of just anti-abortion then you’d expect them to give a rat’s ass about, oh, say, pre-natal care. As a movement they don’t. You’d expect them to care about infant mortality. As a movement they don’t. You’d expect them to care about stilbirth. As a movement they don’t. You’d expect them to care about maternal mortality. As a movement they don’t.

And since miscarriage “stops a beating heart” roughly as often as abortion (about one in four first pregnancies, about one in ten later pregnancies) you’d expect them to care about that too. As a movement, as individuals, as caregivers, and as “crisis-pregnancy” advisors they don’t.

My pro-choice partner and I got a good look at it when our planned, wanted first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage and the best we got from “pro-life” crowd while it was still on-going and presumably still rescuable was a chipper “oh well, just keep trying, I’m sure she’ll be pregnant again in no time.” Gee, doesn’t get any more “pro-life” than that, does it?

So! If you’re a reporter, a constituent, or just someone passing one of these “principled men,” (and it was overwhelmingly men) who voted for the Stipak amendment, and you have an opportunity to ask them questions, on or off the record, how about asking…

“Have you ever given an instant of thought about any of the above? Has anyone you know? If not how does this make you ‘pro-life?’”