Thread by @TheValuesVoter

A human baby conceived on the day the Supreme Court overturned the Roe decision would be one week old, on average, today.

So let’s look at some stats. And ask ourselves, what have we done or are doing now to prepare for all the new life?

Because #prolife doesn’t end at birth!

States with the highest percentage of babies born with low birth rates:

1) Mississippi
2) Louisiana
3) Alabama
4) Georgia
5) South Carolina
6) Wyoming
7) Arkansas
8) North Carolina
9) West Virginia
10) Colorado

cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom…

States with the highest teen birth rate:

1) Mississippi
2) Arkansas
3) Louisiana
4) Oklahoma
5) Alabama
6) Kentucky
7) Tennessee
8) West Virginia
9) Texas
10) New Mexico

cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom…

States with the highest rates of babies being born prematurely:

1) Mississippi
2) Alabama
3) Louisiana
4) West Virginia
5) South Carolina
6) Arkansas
7) Georgia
8) Oklahoma
9) Kentucky
10) Missouri

cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom…

Here’s the point:

People who seek abortions seek them for a reason. In many cases those reasons include things like economic concerns and not intending to get pregnant in the first place. We don’t do enough to address these reasons, which increase the demand for abortion.

It is ironic that many of the states that proudly proclaim themselves to be the most pro-life also happen to be statistically the worst places to be a newborn.

We need to focus on human life on both sides of the birth event. Not just before birth.

The attitude towards human life can’t be indifference on either side of the birth event.

In the womb, the human is not just a “blob of cells.” It is a human at an early stage of development.

And after the baby leaves the womb, the baby’s welfare can’t be “not my concern.”

Babies need to eat. They need health care. ESPECIALLY if they’re born premature.

Parents who already have children often need child care so that they can work and provide for their families.

Moms need to know that they won’t lose their jobs because they’re pregnant.

Yeah, in a perfect world, everybody would become pregnant only when they intended to and everybody would have enough resources to take care of their vulnerable newborns.

But we don’t live in a perfect world.

And when people can’t do all these things, somebody needs to help out.

People can make various judgements about decisions that parents make.

But you know who’s not to blame for them? The babies!

And either we put as much energy into being concerned about these babies after birth as we say we are before birth.

Or else we’re just saying “it’s not my concern what happens after birth.” Which is just a more elegant way of saying “I don’t care.”

The sanctity of human life does not begin at birth. And it doesn’t end at birth either.

Life is precious. And it costs money and support.