What "culture of life"?

Choose life, okay, but how?
By RICK SALUTIN

Friday, March 25, 2005

What "culture of life"?
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"I believe the word "pro-life," used in the case of Terri Schiavo and in the anti-abortion movement, should be taken seriously. I don't think it is just part of a linguistic battle for political advantage: pro-life versus pro-choice. I think pro-lifers are preoccupied with life -- but largely because they are obsessed by death. Not only, or chiefly, the deaths of the unborn or Terri Schiavo, but by a deathliness they sense all around, that leads to panic."
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"What do you do when you sense this kind of deathliness? You can try to confront and change it. But that may lead to frustration, along with a painful admission that many of your leaders are unworthy or ill-motivated. And it implies the wrenching admission that much of this death never needed to be. Or you decline to confront the pervasive deathliness in its many disturbing forms. Instead, you panic, focus on isolated symbols, and respond to them in anguish with vague slogans. You Choose Life and demand a tube be put back into Terri Schiavo. It's not surprising that the language of death pulses through this kind of "pro-Life" movement. On TV this week, Terri Schiavo's father referred to "this judge who's on a crusade to kill our daughter.""
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Rick Salutin and I disagree on a lot of things, a fact that no doubt gives him sleepless nights. In this case, however, I believe he has touched on a truth.

This is hypothesis similar to that used by Michael Moore in Bowling For Columbine.

No longer does a President of the US say "we have nothing to fear but fear itself", rather the fear is used as a political tool.

The entire article is here:

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he'll be on the right track.

From my perspective there can BE no culture of life where the givers of life are second class citizens. I could go on, but I'll leave it at that. And for those who aren't feminists or are but haven't stepped into the past enough to understand what happened to the ancient matrifocal, goddess-worshipping cultures to get us where we are today: PATRIARCHY, either trust me :-) or get busy doin' some research! (The Chalice and the Blade by Reisler is a great start.)