I've always struggled with what I see as certain Americans on EO being contradictory, struggled because I find it very confusing.
Black and white, either pro-life or pro-death.. some outspoken members choose pro-life, but yet those same members have been seen on EO to be the first to openly offer their services in getting rid of certain people, by death. So it seems it's pro-life, as long as that life is deemed worthy by the members' own standards of worthiness.
And so cells within a woman's body are deemed by certain EO members to be a 'baby', and worthy of life, but yet, once those 55,000,000 aborted babies would have been born (rough estimate of the number of legal abortions performed in the USA since 1973), and would have perhaps subsequently become welfare cases, draining said members' OWN resources, they may have then become unworthy of life after all.
Then, to further confuse me, some EO members are adamant about how government should not be in a position to control US citizens and their bodies. And yet they seem to be demanding that the government force the female population to carry every one of their fetuses for 9 months of their lives, no matter if they were impregnated by rape, incest, failed contraception, and no matter if the fetus is known to have severe disabilities which will become a drain on the country's medicare?
It strikes me odd that the beliefs are so strong and that's great to stand up for something, yet there seems to be no forward thinking on how the issue could realistically be resolved, all the way through.
Also, I wonder if the time has ever been taken to consider what would it be like if it were the male population instead of the female population, which carried the fetuses to term? What if males were abused throughout history, raped and beaten, impregnated by their mothers, often only being able to secure low-paying jobs which could not realistically provide for offspring, etc etc etc. Would the views be the same then?