I believe that some pro-life advocates really obsess themselves with abortion to the point that they do not give much thought to the child or the mother after birth.
I think one of the things is that a lot of other legal and social rights kick in after birth, so there are multiple safety nets to look after people’s well-being after a certain point in time.
Which is why pro-life advocates focus on the time period when children are vulnerable from harm from the people with the most responsibility to protect them.
It’s disingenuous to say, “Those people don’t care about moms and kids after they’re born.” Because then you fall into the category of people who sneer about the “forced birthers”, and that’s not exactly the kind of company you’d want to be lumped in with, right?
People care about all sorts of people— the homeless, the unemployed, the addicts, the gang members, the orphans, the widows, the senior citizens, the lonely, the depressed, the mentally ill. But just because they don’t give equal attention or support to addicts AND the unemployed AND the homeless AND the senior citizens AND the mentally ill doesn’t mean that they don’t care about them, period. It just means people have finite resources-- physical, mental, financial, spiritual, whatever-- and they use them according to their priorities. So if I see there are ten soup kitchens for the homeless in my area, and five places for the unemployed to cultivate job skills and get day labor, and three organizations that make sure the elderly get fed— then that frees me up to focus on the unborn, or on the mentally ill, or the gang members, or whoever I want to reach out to.
