Hello, my name is Pro-Life

I can’t believe this is not a joke!

A Senate candidate has legally changed his name to Pro-Life and will appear on the ballot that way this year, state election officials say.

As Marvin Pro-Life Richardson, the organic strawberry farmer from Letha, 30 miles northwest of Boise, was denied the use of his middle name when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 because the state’s policy bars the use of slogans on the ballot.

Now, though, officials in the Idaho secretary of state’s office say they have no choice because Pro-Life is his full and only name. He says he will run for the highest state office on the ballot every two years for the rest of his life, advocating murder charges for doctors who perform abortions and for women who obtain the procedure.

I don’t really know what to do besides giggle at this.  It’s a little ridiculous, isn’t it?

“I think it’s just and I think it’s proper to have Pro-Life on the ballot,” he told the Idaho Press-Tribune of Nampa. “If I save one baby’s life, it’s worth it.”

Yeah, I see that happening.  I can totally picture a woman in the voting booth going, “Well gosh, I was going to have an abortion after this but now that I have seen Pro-Life on the ballot I think I’ll have myself a baby instead!”  So plausible!

David Ripley, executive director of Idaho Chooses Life, says he knows and respects Pro-Life but fears some voters may think Pro-Life is a position rather than a candidate and mistakenly mark their ballots both for him and for another anti-abortion candidate for the Senate, thus nullifying their choices.

Is it wrong of me to think this would be hilarious?  Probably.  Oh well.

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