home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!bsu-cs!joemays
- From: joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph F. Mays)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <3373@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:10:52 GMT
- References: <C015F4.IMK@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Dec29.194313.8277@netcom.com> <C01Mxq.1I5@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Organization: Dept. of CS Ball State University Muncie IN
- Lines: 43
-
- In article <C01Mxq.1I5@ra.nrl.navy.mil> psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.194313.8277@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian
- >Kendig) writes:
-
- >> I am NOT pro-abortion. I believe that abortion should only be used as
- >> a last resort; it's something I wouldn't want anyone to go through.
-
- >This is silly, of course. Pro-abortion means obviously you favor its
- >availability.
-
- Nonsense. Anyone with even a minimal grasp of English can see that the
- term "pro-abortion" means "for abortion". It carries the clear implication
- that the person so labelled advocates abortion *over and above* other
- choices. Were this not the case, pro-choice advocates could just as
- easily be labelled pro-life, as they advocate the availability of the
- choice to keep a child, or put it up for adoption, as much as they do
- the availability of abortion.
-
- Applying the term "pro-abortion" is an attempt to cast your opponents
- as advocating abortion as *the choice of preference*. It's a lie,
- and it's perpetrated only for cheap grandstanding. You seem very
- intelligent, so I can only conclude that you know this, and are
- choosing to lie anyway.
-
- Joe
-
- >I know why the the term "pro-choice" was invented. Do you? "Choice" is
- >to "Pro-abortion" as "tinkle" is to "urinate". We just tend not to use
- >certain words in certain situations.
-
- Woops! Guess you don't know why it was invented after all. It was
- invented for the same reason the term "pro-life" was invented, as a
- PR tactic to emphasize the positive aspects of one side of the reproductive
- rights argument. It is, however, more accurate than "pro-life" as the
- linking aspect of the pro-choice side of the controversy is that all
- choices, including abortion, should be available to a woman, whereas the
- linking aspect of the pro-life side is that abortion should be illegal.
- But pro-life sounds nicer than "anti-abortion" so that's what they
- went with.
-
- Joe
-
-
-