While we fight and argue with our right-wing opposites (and each other) over SCOTUS nominees, abortion, Roe-v-Wade, a moral outrage took place last week which only a few Kossacks appeared to notice. The House passed Rep. Pombo's latest attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act. By removing or diluting to the point of meaninglessness protections for plants and animals on the brink of extinction, the House signaled that genocide and extermination are legitimate tools for solving social problems.
There are roughly 15 million different species sharing the planet with us. Pombo's legislation makes 14,999,999 of these expendable. In the face of this, the so-called "Pro-Life" movement responded with ---- nothing.
Odd, for a movement whose incesssant refrain is "Life is Sacred". But not so odd, given that in fact "Pro-Life" in America really means "fetus uber alles". If the rights of a blastosphere trump the rights of a woman in the minds of the pro-Lifers, it's no surprise that even the future inhabitability of Earth would be similarly inconsequential.
Pombo's legislation is pure racism because genocide is racism. Any claim that the genetic material being eliminated is more important if it's sitting in a group of humans rather than a group of furbish louseworts is a racist argument. The moral pretensions of the "Pro-Life" movement are just that until they begin demonstrating that the really are pro-life.