I hear people over and over again making a distinction between pro-choice and pro-abortion. But is it a distinction without a difference?
The use of the word "choice" is a euphemism to conceal the fact that they are only concerned with one choice in particular. They aren't concerned with the range of other choices like adoption. In fact, they frequently block legislation intended to make adoption easier. So are they really pro-choice when they want to foreclose the choice of adoption while making their favored "choice" easier? Doesn't sound all that pro-choice anymore does it?
And just like they use the word "choice" to conceal what it is they want people to choose, they seem to think that in any given scenario, every possible choice should be available, no matter how unethical.
2006-09-15 07:51:50 · 12 answers · asked by BrianthePigEatingInfidel 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Here's a pro-choice argument applied to a businsess dispute: Partner A can leave the partnership, or he can sue for losses incurred by partner B. But here comes the pro-choice lobby saying that partner A should be able to KILL partner B. It's not murder, it's a CHOICE. See how clever?
No, they don't acknowledge that government limits choice in countless ways. I don't have the "choice" of enslaving people so I can save money on housekeeping, even though that choice is physically possible. The government limits my choice of how much I can pay employees, even though that is none of the government's business. The government limits my choice in whether I pay for goods that the store or not. A pro-choice argument would say that I have the choice to go into Besat Buy and walk off with that nice computer system I've been wanting.
The next time anyone says that they are "pro-choice" just recognize that it is not as innocent as they want it to sound.
2006-09-15 07:52:01 · update #1
I think they use the term pro-choice because it doesn't sound as nasty as pro-abortion, but its the same crap.
2006-09-15 07:54:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Pro-choice is pro-abortion. Members of the pro-choice movement use the word pro-choice in order to try and avoid the fact that a fetus is, from both a pro-life and a genetics perspective, a full fledged human being from the moment of conception.
Many pro-choicers like to say that they think abortion is wrong and are therefore not pro-abortion, but that they (and the law) have no right to interfere with a pregnant woman's choice to abort her unborn child. This is generally an attempt to turn the subject from the fact the the fetus is a live human being to when the woman made the choice to be pregnant, which is ussually an easier argument for the pro-choice side.
2006-09-15 08:26:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where do you get your facts? Everyone I know of that is pro-choice has worked really hard on making sure that ALL options are out there. My friend worked on hard to try to help pass adoption laws that would make it easier to adopt. Why was the measure defeated? Because people like you played the abortion card even though abortion played no part whatsoever in the law they were trying to pass.
I don't believe in abortion, but it's not my place or the place of the government to tell you what you can and cannot do with your body.
2006-09-15 08:02:00 · answer #3 · answered by darkemoregan 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'll make it easier for you. Since I am a moderate who is pro-choice, I'll try to fill you in.
In your "business example" Partner A has found out that if they continue the partnership B will kill her. She is standing in front of B who is pointing a gun at her....according to you she should let A kill her.
A was forced at gun point to enter a partnership with B, B takes off should A have to continue running the company?
Liberals anti adoption?????? What about cons on birthcontrol? What are your views on birth control being taught in schools? Your views on gays adopting? How many crack kids have you adopted?
At least Bush has made it clear WHY you need more kids....to send to Iraq.
2006-09-15 08:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pro Choice means that they favor allowing women to have the "choice" to make a decision affecting their own body. It isn't right for anyone to tell anybody what they should do to their own body. I know personally I would not support anyone I know having an abortion but in certain cases such as rape and incest I can understand how someone would consider it.
2006-09-15 08:10:27 · answer #5 · answered by The Juggernauts 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pro-Choice means that the individual gets the right to rule over their own body, not the government.
2006-09-15 08:18:53 · answer #6 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Shiraz(Jim W answer #1) you are in your own way an imposter.
Ant-choice types are nuts,everyone knows it,and you feel this sick need to control the lives of strangers.
The pro-life crowd(no THERE's any oxymoron for you!) who uses
terms like "legally sanctioned infanticed" and "babykiller" is the sickest dempgraphic in America.No doubt.
And the word "choice" is manipulatively by Christians as to the philosophies of non-christians,and we all know what christians do to people they cannot control.Unethical.
2006-09-15 08:01:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pro-choice means making a decision.
2006-09-15 07:56:48 · answer #8 · answered by edubya 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It means trusting the woman over the government in making that difficult decision.
2006-09-15 07:58:01 · answer #9 · answered by brian2412 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
pro-choice means they do not try to force their own will and moral believes on somebody else. they leave the choice in the hands of the woman involved.
2006-09-15 07:57:01 · answer #10 · answered by szubuti 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That is when Bush sends the CIA to torture you and you have a choice of telling them what they want or not telling them.
Go big Red Go
2006-09-15 07:54:59 · answer #11 · answered by 43 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋