Opening a pandora's box...Pro-Choice not equal to pro-abortion?

Question

I've noticed that anytime somebody says pro-abortion...somebody has to corrrect them to say they are pro-choice, not pro-abortion. Do these people not understand that the "choice" they are advocating by being pro-choice is abortion? If all you want to be is "pro-woman's choice to reproductive rights"...don't most women get to make that choice when they choose to sleep with a man? Isn't it safe to assume that EVERYONE knows that sex can lead to pregnancy?

The way I see it, I am pro choice and anti-abortion. If you don't want to have a baby, take precautions when you have sex, or don't have sex. If your choice to have sex leads to pregnancy...then don't have an abortion. You should be responsible for the choice you made.

Just looking for an honest understanding, not trying to judge or call anyone names.

To the question of rape, the woman was removed of her choice to become pregnant, so she should have the choice to not be pregnant. Abortion in that case is permissable.

"Besides if that 2 day old pile of cells is a person then why can't they vote, and why can't I use them on my taxes?"

I don't know...why can't a 16 year old vote? Are they less of a person because the state doesn't recognize them?

Answer 1

Hey, I am guessing that you do not have ovaries?? Pro-choice is literally a womans right to make a choice. Yes, abortion is an option, but that would be her choice. You talk about protection... how effective are condoms and birth control pills?? They are not 100% effective. What about women who are raped? Can they be given the opportunity to make that choice??

People, you cannot say that u are against abortion and then turn around and complain about paying taxes for welfare. It is ok if you are against abortion, but what a shame it is that u will never have to make that choice.

Answer 2

This is not true. Pro Choice is simply giving the respect to women to make an informed decision about her pregnancy. If you are saying that Pro Choice means that the only choice available is abortion, what are you doing when the Pro Life people say that the only choice is to have a baby? Really? No matter what?
Sometimes a womans choice is to abort, if she's married or not. Sometimes her choice is to put it up for adoption if she's married or not.
Sometimes the mother was raped from a stranger on the street. Sometimes the rapist is the father, brother , uncle, or mom's boyfriend.
Sometimes the mother's life is in danger, or the baby's life was in danger. Every ones situation can not fit into one neat and tidy little box, and everyone in a pregnancy can't be treated the same. Pro abortion would indicate that we are out there in some maniacle tyrade telling every one who is pregnant to get an abortion. This is retarded. First of all, the procedure itself, puts the mother's life at risk under the safest of circumstances. And we don't believe that abortion is to be used as birth control either. That's why we pass out literature, that explains all of the choices that a woman actually has. An informed decision, is the best decision. An abortion after the first 3 months, actually is murder, and most abortion clinics won't even perform them. The problem is that they are so expensive, I think the cheapest is about $150.00, that teenagers that messed up can't even afford it, and when they finally get it it's too late for one. That's when they start looking for doctors in the yellow pages who will perform 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions, which are much more expensive.
The problem I have, is they say they are Pro Life, but they are not pro living. My question would be Why doesn't pro life equal pro living?
They don't have a problem telling a stranger what they should do with their own bodies and life, but non of them will help an unwed mother, outside of calling them murderers if they choose to abort. They won't adopt the child either, but they tell the mother to stick the child in the foster system to be abused for how many years? What about those mothers that have no money or a place to stay, and they leave their baby on a dumpster? This is better? That a living breathing being suffers?
And the most ironic thing, is that they call a woman that gets an abortion murderer, but what do they call it when they bomb an abortion clinic, or kill an abortionist? Like I said, Pro Life does not equal Pro Living, because they seem to be against the living that are already here.

Sometimes a woman's choice is to have the baby too, and that's OK too, so we try to help them, which is a lot more than I can say for any pro life advocate.

I chose not to abort twice, but I chose to abort once, and I was married. I had fallen, and felt that something would be wrong with the child,since I had gotten so sick from it. Like I said, everyone has got their own reasons, and everyone should have their own choice.

Answer 3

You have never made a mistake? The thing with taking away the right to have abortion is it leads to other things. Then your right to use birth control. Insurance doesn't pay for that anymore either. I am pro-choice and pro-abortion. However, I could never have an abortion myself. I think people should have a right to decide what is right for them. Also the rape case, if you say its okay to have an abortion if you are raped but not if you make a mistake, think about it. "That guy raped me I SWEAR!" When it was all consensual. Then Innocent males are being hurt and going to court for rape even though they didn't do it. When you find out your pregnant you can be ruthless. You can't make things okay for some instances and not for others.

Answer 4

I disagree

PRO-CHOICE to me means you are in favor of the woman carrying the pregnancy making her own CHOICE.

She should certainly have just as much right to choose to have the baby and keep it, have the baby and adopt it, as she does an abortion

If we were strictly Pro-abortion, we would be in favor of all pregnancy;s ending in abortion. That is a very extreme and nihilistic view that I have never heard expressed

You can say pro-life because you only want pregnancy's to result in live births. But we have to say pro-choice, because we agree with you in most cases, we just do not want the CHOICE taken away altogether

and while yes, all sexual intercourse can lead to pregnancy, are you really advocating that women only get to make a choice before they have sex? what do men get?

Answer 5

I see your point, but what you're saying is that the "choice" is having sex which could lead to pregnancy. I think if that's how you want to define it, then everyone would be prochoice. I don't know of anybody, other than rapists, who would say women should not have a choice in whether they participate in sexual intercourse or not. So if that is how you define the word, it lacks any really meaning whatsoever.

I am prochoice. I'm not proabortion. For me, I don't think I'd ever make the choice to have an abortion. I'd certainly never tell another woman that she should have an abortion. But I do want her to have the ability to make her own choices, hence I'm prochoice.

Answer 6

are you confused, because you sure as hell confused the crap outta me..

first you make the statment: "Do these people not understand that the "choice" they are advocating by being pro-choice is abortion?"

then you go on to say: "The way I see it, I am pro choice and anti-abortion."

Aren't you contradictiong yourself? I agree with the second statement. I believe that a woman should have the choice to decide what will happen to her. Whether she wants to have the baby or not. I agree that abortion is murder, but I am not the one who has to live with that memory for the rest of my life; the woman who chose to abort her unborn child WILL. It's none of my business to judge what a woman does with her body and the body of that unborn fetus.

Personally, I believe that Pro-Choice is NOT Pro-Abortion, it is a choice that is made by a woman to have or not have a child...

Answer 7

Advocates of a women's right to have an abortion for any reason call it Pro-Choice because it sounds genteeler and more acceptable than the term" pro-abortion". The aim is to dress the dead baby in prettier words so the kill won't sound as murderous as it is.

Answer 8

In my opinion, you are 110% correct: Pro-Choice is NOT Pro-Abortion. We can argue all day long as to when life begins - but a furtilized egg is a damned good start. Pro-Choice, with all of its civil liberty and freedom waving banners has become the exceptable term for post-pregnancy birth control.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I believe that a woman shouldn't be force to have a baby if she doesn't want to, I wouldn't condone an abortion but is not my place to say what a woman should do, hence pro choice but not pro abortion being one doesn't imply the other