Sunday, November 16, 2008

Don't call them Pro-life!

I'm really getting annoyed with the term "Pro-life". The Anti-choicers use this term to try to make it sound like the other side is pro-abortion. I am both pro-choice and pro-life. And I'm sure that nobody is pro-abortion. I have never seen commercials, pamphlets, people knocking on my door at dinner time dressed in their best suits and dresses, or even so much as a newspaper ad trying to talk women into getting abortions. I have never heard of any maternity wards getting bombed or of any death threats against obstetricians. They are, as their name suggests, Pro-choice.
Now I understand that its their little fanatical club, and they can call themselves whatever they want. But when other people refer to them as pro-life, including even pro-choicers and all media and politicians and the like, it serves nothing but to play into the notion that pro-choicers are unrepentant baby killers who think everybody should get an abortion.
The reason they don't call themselves anti-choice is that people will make the connection that, hey these guys are trying to take away our right to choose, and those people aren't. Choice is good right? They would go from "saving lives" to infringing on people's rights. I gotta hand it to them though, its a brilliant PR device.
But like I said, they have the right to choose any name they want, but we also have the right to choose not to dignify their misleading name by using it. Call them anti-choice like they are.

4 comments:

Ed Ngai said...

I agree. Pro-Choice doesn't mean Anti-Life. There are no extremists or protesters for pro-choice so why should there be for pro-life?

Sass said...

Interesting perspectives...

I'll be back...:)

Anonymous said...

Pro-choice, fully agree, pro-choice can equally be pro-life. Why bash it, woman's body, let woman decide.

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Anonymous said...

Witty.