Why We’re Here
Vegans for Preborn Rights is an intersectional nonprofit organization founded in February of 2023 in Seattle, WA, dedicated to advocating for nonhuman animals and preborn humans alike. This organization exists not only because both veganism and pro-lifeism are essentially the same thing but also because abortion and animal agriculture are by far the most genocidal, violent, and oppressive concepts to ever exist.
Five issues that are particularly relevant to both are that preborn kittens and puppies are often aborted during spays, calves are aborted in slaughterhouses along with their mothers, balut is the killing and eating of duck or chicken fetuses, farms have started switching from killing newly hatched male chicks to killing them through sex-selective chicken abortion, and humanized mice trials happen during fetal tissue research. We also support various other social justice causes and speak out as we can, but we see a need to fight against both of these issues first and foremost since they take the most amount of lives and oppress the most victims, to the utmost extent and on the most vulnerable and defenseless.
While we admire concepts like Consistent Life and Total Liberation and consider our organization to be a part of both (also we’re part of the Consistent Life Network), we recognize that they too are leaving someone out and not actually consistent or totally for liberation. Therefore, we believe in a full, consistent anti oppression ethos that truly is against all violence and oppression, and supports the liberation of all. We see all oppression as being related as it’s essentially the same concept of seeing someone as lesser-than, transferred onto X, Y, or Z group. We understand that the various minority groups that exist are at an even higher position to understand the oppression of these two groups and be in solidarity, because we know what it's like to be oppressed and that we should not pass that oppression onto others. Especially not the most vulnerable who have more lives lost.
We want to be welcoming of people who don't agree with us on everything but want to advocate for one issue or the other (within reason - we reject working with problematic people and want to provide a safe space for minority groups). When we do animal rights activism, we want pro-choicers to feel that they can join us. Likewise, when we do pro-life activism, it doesn't strictly have to be done by vegans as well. And we acknowledge that not everyone will take an intersectional approach on every issue we care about, but we all want to fight for the greater good to end the injustice of the most vulnerable and defenseless.
