Being pro-life means more than being anti-abortion – although the terms are often used interchangeably. All human beings possess human life and are designed by God and nature to pass it on, imaging He Who Is life-giving Love. Being pro-life, therefore, means opposing all actions that intentionally vitiate life and its propagation in the natural order.
Let us be clear. There is an important distinction between the terms ‘human life’ and ‘human beings’. Abortion attacks ‘human beings’, whereas acts that intentionally thwart, pervert, impede, or prevent the human life process attack ‘human life’. Attacks on human life always precede attacks on human beings, as in our country Griswold vs. Connecticut paved the way for Roe vs. Wade. Contraception, masturbation, sodomy, and sterilization are intrinsically disordered acts of death, and support for them is, by definition, anti-life.
Therefore, one can be anti-murder by opposing abortion and euthanasia, which of course is good. But this in itself does not encompass being Pro-life, which by definition opposes all anti-life acts. Only a population that is decidedly Pro-life, not simply anti-abortion, can defeat a culture of death.
Provokes good thought and clarity of thought….
Until we understand our nature and ourselves as being intrinsically lifegivers, we will never understand what it means to be human and to image God. And if we don’t understand our nature we will not understand our end or ultimate purpose. In other words, as Christ says in John 8:32, the only way to freedom and happiness is through living the truth, and this begins with living according to the truth of our being. Impeding and perverting human life is selfish and intrinsically evil, desecrating God’s image on earth. Being pro-life means being pro-God; and, since there’s no other way to fulfillment, it also means being pro-self.