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   XPost: alt.abortion, alt.support.abortion, talk.abortion   
   From: balie@rogers.com   
      
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    "Light Templar"  wrote:   
      
   > While *ProteanThread* was contemplating his or her navel in   
   > news:06a34c91b3aadc36d4764ff5944fa2a8@news.teranews.com,   
   >  he or she gave us all a good laugh with the following...   
   >   
   > > ok, quesiton:   
   > >   
   > > if the general media (either right and or left) uses the terms:   
   > >   
   > > Pro Choice for those supporting abortion   
   > > Anti Abortion for those against abortion   
   > >   
   > > Then why don't they ever use the following terms for the "other" side   
   > > of the issue (just to be fair):   
   > >   
   > > Pro Life for those against abortion   
   > > Anti Choice for those against abortion   
   > >   
   > > or   
   > >   
   > > Pro Abortion for those supporting abortion   
   > > Anti Life for those against abortion   
   > >   
   > > it seems only fair doesn't it?  On the other hand, if you were to   
   > > break down the phrase "Planned Parenthood" into synonyms, strangely   
   > > enough the phrase "Selective Breeding" comes to mind.  (can you think   
   > > of one for right to life that can be found in a thesaurus?)  Is the   
   > > media telling the truth when they say more and more Americans are pro   
   > > choice but how can one really judge that or believe that when they   
   > > "selective" choose the words to describe the debate (meaning the   
   > > media has already made up our minds for us)?   
   >   
   > You do realize that things are not so cut-and-dried as all of that.   A   
   > person can be against abortion, and still be pro-choice.  For example I   
   > don't believe that people should chose to have an abortion, if someone asked   
   > me, I would advise against having one.  However, I don't believe that the   
   > government should be dictating what a person can, or can not do with their   
   > bodies, and I particularly do not believe that the government should be   
   > dictating what medical choices a person may or may not make, as long as the   
   > medical choice in question is reasonably safe.  (Having your brain removed   
   > before you die is not a viable medical choice)   So, that makes me   
   > anti-abortion, anti-government interference.   
      
   What you are describing is a case of semantics. My experience of prolife   
   is that they prefer to use the terms pro-abortion and pro-choice and for   
   those terms to mean different things.   
      
   Prochoice is _not_ used interchangeably for a generalized stance against   
   government intrusion or regulation. Since the word has been accepted   
   into dictionaries in the early 70s, it has consistently been applied to   
   the subject of abortion _only_.   
      
   Interestingly, this must pose a difficult position for some pro-life   
   folk. By allowing for the freedom from government intrusion, they must   
   also accept millions of abortions.   
      
   I wonder what that must be like.   
      
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