anger

compassion

pro-life

 can be a very positive thing in that it can move us beyond the acceptance of evil.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil. Joan D. Chittister

is the gate to human community. It makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

is, as it exists in today's political environment, closer to pro-birth. So-called pro-lifers often want that a child be born but these same people refuse that tax money ensure that a child be fed, that a child be educated, or that a child be housed.

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't' Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.'

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