I don’t get my knickers in a knot over labels. I do like to make what I stand for clear.
I stand for the defence of women through defending their unborn children. I do not view something as serious as taking a life to be just another choice. Therefore, I am anti-choice with regards to abortion. I am pro-life because being anti-abortion nurtures life in the fullest sense of the word both for the baby and the mother. And I believe that when we fail the most vulnerable among us, which includes children but also women experiencing an unwanted pregnancy, we are failing in society in general.
So it’s with interest that I read that Planned Parenthood doesn’t like their “pro-choice” label anymore. I always thought it was quite a successful euphemism for them. Perhaps we are all getting too smart to be deceived by it anymore?
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Melissa says
What moniker are they going to use, do you suppose, if pro-choice is off the table? I can’t imagine that it would be a title that used the word abortion in it: that would be just too clear for people who prefer us to remain just a little bit confuzzled about what goes on behind the doors of the euphemistically-named “Women’s Health Centres”. I imagine they are going to come out with a ridiculous slogan like “pro-freedom” or something, and then, prolife advocates are going to have to spend our time educating that, when a “woman’s advocate” spouts off the slogan “pro-freedom”, what she is really advocating for is the freedom to have infanticide performed on unborn children.
It takes a lot of time to argue with people who refuse to be clear about just what they stand for. But, on the other hand, nobody in their right mind will say that they are opposed to choice, or to freedom, unless the choices and freedoms are carefully spelled out to be foul ones.