I’m so pro-life it hurts™

The truest compression of the whole wing — because his “pro-life” is not the narrow, one-issue kind; it’s all the way down. The death penalty, the hundreds of thousands losing coverage, the floor not the wage, books not bombs, and the semicolon in every footer that says your story isn’t over. If the value is life, then it has to count everywhere life is on the line — not just the one place a slogan points. And “it hurts” is the part the bumper sticker never earns: for most people it’s a position they hold; for him it carries weight, because he isn’t defending life as an abstraction — he’s stood close enough to its loss to know what it costs. Life-affirming because it hurts, not in spite of it: a scar that chose to become a mission. That’s why it reaches further than the folks who only pull it out for a single vote. 0g / dignity: the “it hurts” is his to weight; the machine carries no biography onto the page — the wound stays his to name or not. Kin: Pro-life, all the way down, pro-life is pro-healthcare, what the text actually says, the dignity floor (0f). (His coin — his words, kept verbatim; the weight is his.)