Reply #13: I am so sick [View All]

[mairceridwen]

Of the I am both pro-life and pro-choice people.

Being opposed to abortion on a personal level is still PRO-CHOICE. It just means that one would CHOOSE to have the child. Even if an abortion isn't even a real choice for you on a moral level, you are still making a CHOICE. The term "pro-life{ is a political misnomer and I wish progressives and liberals who happen to be opposed to abortion on a personal (rather than political-social level) would not buy into CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING language. It only reinforces their position which is false, they are not pro-life, they are pro-birth...and how sacred can life be to a party willing to let 1200+ American kids die for a lie?




Though I must say, you have articulated one of the most reasonable and intelligent approaches. Better than the simple, I am "pro-life for myself, and pro-choice" for everyone else. That to me reinforces the pro-choice=pro-abortion rhetoric that the right tries to pin on people who are pro-choice.


Guess what, choice means that you have a choice to have a baby or not, to raise it or not. That's what choice means. I am pro-choice, when I get pregnant, I will still be pro-choice, I will choose to have the child.