Not the best possible holiday timing but Megan of Jezebel says

About 3.2 million women, mostly in the developing world, gave birth to stillborn children last year, and one-third of those women lost their children during labor. Little research is done to address the problem. [UPI]

Read the quote in context here.

All you need to know about the “pro-life” movement is that we heard about this from the feminist politics desk at Jezebel instead via deeply concerned press releases from every single “pro-life” on the planet.

Oh wait! How callous of me. Of course the “pro-life” movement cares when a wanted child dies before or during birth. Just the other day Alaska’s Governor Palin signed a bill authorizing… birth certificates for stillbirths! (Quoth the Governor: “I’m thankful that Alaska’s legislature recognizes how important a step like this is as Alaska embraces a culture of life and respects precious babies, including babies stillborn…”)

But if you were to search Google News with the keywords “stillbirth pro-life“ you’ll get… well, you’ll find nothing at all indicating that men and women who care enough about “unborn life” to commit assault, vandalism, arson, and murder for hire have anything to say at all about stillbirth.

Again, that’s all you need to know about the “pro-life” movement. Period. At all.

Fuck them and the horse they rode up on.