[IronJack]

Back to the label issue ...

What exactly is the “choice” in the pro-abort label? I have never heard one of those harridans express support for the choice of letting the child live. So the only choice remaining is to abort. And a single option isn’t much of a choice.

Since that is the case, there are two camps: those who oppose abortion — call them pro-life or anti-abortion — and those who support abortion — call them pro-death, anti-life, or pro-abortion. But let’s stop this rhetorical falsehood that they are advocates for “choice.”

[tenger]

I think it’s even simpler than that. Make the pro-choice spell out what the choice is. Terminating a pregnancy? What does it mean? By letting them use these soft euphemisms for what it really is, we’re letting them off the hook. But you’re right, there isnt’ much choice, is there?

[Westbrook]

+1

[DuncanWaring]

I have never heard one of those harridans express support for the choice of letting the child live.

Recall how they excoriated Sarah Palin for "choosing" not to dismember her youngest in utero.

[sportutegrl]

Debaters always want to frame their argument as being 'for' or 'pro' something; never 'anti' or 'con.'. But, in every issue, there is both a 'pro' and a 'con'. Thus we have anti-abortionists calling themselves pro-life, because they want to project a positive, not a negative argument.

But, the side that already has the 'pro' side of the abortion argument; the side that doesn't need to change a thing to be positive -- the pro-abortion crowd, chooses to label themselves 'pro-choice'. Why? Because abortion is evil and so the word abortion is evil.

[JimRed]

I have never heard one of those harridans express support for the choice of letting the child live.

As Rush has said for many years, they are pro-choice, as long as the choice is to abort.