Aswad
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol 'Pro-life' has a multitude of meanings, but it's best known for its anti-choice stance, isn't it? It sure is. Many things are known for something not inherent to it. So let's discard the term. There's five actual stances, four of which are found in the West, all called different things. These are (and note that the cursive text doesn't reflect my views, but popular names): - It is a choice for the parents. (typically called pro-choice or men's rights)
- It is a choice for the mother. (typically called pro-choice or feminism)
- It is a choice for the father. (typically called male chauvinism or muslim pigs)
- Society chooses abortion. (typically called eugenics)
- Society chooses birth. (typically called pro-life)
However, the term pro-life, in its strictest sense, only means "in favour of life". It is valid to call oneself pro-life without being against-choice. But the organizations involve like to have nice, clean and euphemistic slogans that people can rally to and chant like mantras. Reality, as usual, is more complicated. But the organizations all have agendas. None of those who call themselves "pro-choice" or "pro-life" are on any side but their own. They are about politics, not people. And then stuff gets dumbed down. I'm both pro-life and pro-choice, in that while I feel there's something sad about ending a life, unborn or not, I still think it should ultimately be up to the parent(s), as the child is, at that stage, an endoparasitic organism, after all. My take on it is that, insofar it is, effectively speaking, self-defense for the parent(s), then it's acceptable. I use a wider sense of the term "self-defense" than usual in this context, of course. However, I do not feel that it is acceptable to, for instance, use abortion as a substitute for contraception (yes, I know a woman who's had 6 of them so far, because she doesn't like how a condom feels, and doesn't worry about STDs). quote:
Please explain to me why being pro-life, thus anti-choice, is being against infanticide, because I don't think abortion constitutes infanticide. "Thus" is wrong, as one does not necessarily follow from the other. If you want to use the term exclusively in the anti-choice sense, capitalize it as "Pro-Life", thus naming the movement properly, rather than simply saying "in favour of life", which after all does not imply not being in favour of choice. Proper names are capitalized to distinguish them in that way, avoiding confusion. Infanticide is, of course, not the correct term, you're right. Sorry. I was lazy. Lawfully killing a living, human organism has many words for it, I guess. And I picked the wrong one. "Termination" will do. quote:
PS: I hope you didn't intend on comparing abortion with infanticide, or murder at Gitmo, because it would be terribly offensive to the many women on this site who have had abortions, I, for one, being one of them. I'm trying to explain why your statement was terribly offensive to the regular Pro-Life crowd. In their view of the world, abortion is murder, and would be comparable. In my view, it's not outright comparable, though it's still killing. As I've said in the past, I'm okay with killing sometimes.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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