This is a pro-choice song, I've read it in many places. The first verse I don't fully understand, anyone have any thoughts? It's either sexual or abortion-related imagery. The second verse is all about supposedly having mercy on the baby: "we all got scars, they should have em too" -- this line is talking from the point of pro-life activists, whom the band disagrees with -- saying just because we have had problems in our lives we should inflict it on unwanted children
Part of the agenda of some pro-choice (like Vedder) activists is the belief in reincarnation, or a second chance (look at the liner notes to the album). They think that killing the baby is doing it a service because it deserves (and will get) a second chance at life...
This is a pro-choice song, I've read it in many places. The first verse I don't fully understand, anyone have any thoughts? It's either sexual or abortion-related imagery. The second verse is all about supposedly having mercy on the baby: "we all got scars, they should have em too" -- this line is talking from the point of pro-life activists, whom the band disagrees with -- saying just because we have had problems in our lives we should inflict it on unwanted children
Part of the agenda of some pro-choice (like Vedder) activists is the belief in reincarnation, or a second chance (look at the liner notes to the album). They think that killing the baby is doing it a service because it deserves (and will get) a second chance at life...