The arguments between pro-choice and 'pro-life' people are especially heated in the U.S. right now amidst changes under the new Trump Administration and attacks on Planned Parenthood. The age-old argument, which was seemingly settled at the federal level with the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, has resurfaced like never before since that case and has spurred endless debates over the controversy.

The usual labels for people on either side of the argument are pro-choice and pro-life, but Sister Joan Chittister, a highly-educated catholic nun from Pennsylvania, addresses the issue of people who claim to be 'pro-life' and the hypocrisy behind the term.

While people that are pro-choice are not anti-life, people that are pro-life tend to be anti-welfare, which means they're against helping the parents and babies they demanded be born. The evidence of this is in the stances of Republican lawmakers, who consistently vote against abortion but in favor of ending welfare programs that aid low-income parents and children. Since the majority of women that seek abortion are low-income, this is essentially a direct attack on the women and children that Republican, anti-abortion people forced into this world. As Sister Chittister explains it, 

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."