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Pro-Life Songs

Alicia at Fructus Ventris has linked to an interesting article about pro-life lyrics in pop songs. (Some of the songs may not be deliberately pro-life, but they do not portray abortion in a positive light.) In the same vein, Old Oligarch also recently posted about a couple of suspected pro-life songs (one of which is also mentioned in the Envoy article).

There are a few other songs I can think of that are pro-life. I remember hearing one by the Galactic Cowboys called "If I Were a Killer". And Steve Taylor has several songs that deal with this subject. If you can think of any other pro-life songs, feel free to post a comment.

Posted by Susan B. at 9:56 AM to Music

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Comments

Joel Fuhrmann

Wow! I went to the church that Steve Taylor's dad was the pastor of back in 1981! Crossroads Baptist in Northglenn CO. And Steve was there then!

Posted on August 29, 2003 at 10:25 AM

Bill

King's X has a song called "Legal Kill" that is pro-life (off their Faith Hope Love CD)

Posted on August 29, 2003 at 10:38 AM

Dean Esmay

Well, there's always "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna.

Posted on August 30, 2003 at 7:38 AM

susan b.

Joel - Wow, that's really cool! I didn't discover Steve Taylor until the mid-nineties, so I wasn't listening to him in the eighties, when he was releasing most of his albums.

Bill - I need to check out more stuff by Kings X. They were one of my brother's favorite bands.

Dean - I didn't even think of that one! Back when that song came out, I remember hearing about how NOW had their boxers in a knot over the line where she says "...I'm keepin' my baby".

I just thought of another song that refers to abortion. I wouldn't really say it's pro-life...it seems to be pretty neutral on the subject. The song is "Vicky Verky" by Squeeze -- it's about a teenage girl who has an abortion.

Posted on August 31, 2003 at 9:02 PM

Jeff Miller

I was also going to suggest Legal Kill, one of Kings X's most powerful songs.

A group called Grammatrain had a powerful rocker called Execution.

And Tragedy Ann - Your Escape.

I previously posted the lyrics to these three songs on the foul anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/002485.php#002485

Posted on September 2, 2003 at 7:25 PM