Terminology, revisited.

[sicilianhitlist]

I know a terminology debate has had to have been done before, but let's revisit this

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I prefer either the names people have chosen for themselves (prolife/prochoice) or else pro- & anti- abortion.

I don't understand the opinion that if you say "pro/anti life" it applies to anything/everything outside of the abortion debate, when clearly everyone knows what you are talking about when you use it. By that logic, "pro/anti-choice" must mean that you are pro-all choices about everything everywhere in every situation or anti-all choices about everything everywhere in every situation, which is utterly ridiculous.

As for pro/anti abortion, that makes a lot of sense and seems to be fairly neutral as a term compared to prolife/prochoice, although as you've said, abortion is an emotional term depending on the person's individual feelings on the matter.

I see it as primarily a life issue, so I choose (oh shit, I made a choice, but aren't I supposed to be anti-choice? DILEMMA) to use the term pro-life to represent myself. People that are pro-choice are little better than anti-life in my personal view, but out of respect and to allow debate that doesn't slide into shouting and mudslinging, I'd rather just call them by the name they have chosen and move on.

[roseofjuly]

But I'm not pro-abortion, in the sense that I'm all BORSHUNS FOR ALL!! I want the women who want abortions to be able to get them and the women who don't to be able to do whatever it is they want to do.