the dickinsonian: Let’s Redefine “Pro-Life”

Let’s Redefine “Pro-Life”

living things are flexible and supple and changing
dead things are hard and brittle and unchanging

same is true of living ideas
same is true of dead ideas

i pledge my allegiance to the former

“thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.”

- tao te ching (stephen mitchell trans)