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To: SuziQ; Artist
Nope! The point of the bumper sticker was that SHE wouldn't be able to be holding up HER little (my Mom is Pro-choice) sign if her Mama hadn't been 'Pro-Life' in making the decision to give birth to her!

Well, the fact that her mom was pro-choice and the fact that she is, in fact, holding up her "little sign", proves that your bumper sticker doesn't have its facts straight.

You seem to be confused about what "pro-choice" means exactly. It doesn't mean pro-abortion, it means exactly what it says: Pro-CHOICE.

And what you didn't seem to get is that the woman holding up the sign was trying to tell you that her mom CHOSE to give birth to her, because she's pro-CHOICE. Get it?

Now you can mince semantics all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that people who are pro-choice want nothing more than the freedom to choose, and that includes the choice to have as many babies as they want to have. I am pro-choice, despite the fact that I couldn't even fathom having an abortion.

I'm not trying to change your convictions. But you should at least understand what your opponents' convictions are, if you're going to make an intelligent argument against them. Otherwise, you end up looking like a misguided bumper sticker.

167 posted on 04/17/2002 9:53:01 PM PDT by Motherhood IS a career
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To: Motherhood IS a career
I don't think you saw that in my #156 I was agreeing with you that the "Smile: your mom was pro-life" slogan is flawed. I'm assuming that your remarks in #167 were directed at SuziQ.

However, your thinking here is even more flawed:

"CHOICE" is just shorthand for "pro-the-choice-to-kill-a-baby." It's easier to hide behind words than actually admit what you're doing when you're talking about child murder. And it's an old tactic.....Abortion became "choice" just as genocide of the Jews became the "final solution." It just sounds so much better.

BTW, the doctor that coined the phrase, "pro-choice" and presided over 60,000 abortions is now pro-life. Here's his story.

168 posted on 04/18/2002 6:18:08 AM PDT by Artist
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To: Motherhood IS a career; SuziQ; Artist
Well, the fact that her mom was pro-choice and the fact that she is, in fact, holding up her "little sign", proves that your bumper sticker doesn't have its facts straight.

It's a bumper sticker for God's sake not a philosphical thesis. The point it makes is fair (and funny) enough even if it isn't an entirely water-tight argument.

171 posted on 04/19/2002 2:54:59 AM PDT by Cian
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