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- From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: ProLife, ProMurder, ProCrime And Iraq
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.155915.15661@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Organization: Kalamazoo College
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:59:15 GMT
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- dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes:
- >casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (craig sivils) writes:
- >
- >> [ The "choice" wordplay ]
- >
- >"Pro-choice" is as much a political euphamism as "pro-life"; the
- >pro-abortion crowd is after that right only, and the anti-abortion crowd
- >is only interested in banning abortion, the facts be damned.
-
- I consider "pro-choice" shorthand for "pro-abortion-choice." One can,
- and many do, support womens' right to an abortion, while feeling that
- abortion is a Bad Thing. Labelling these people "pro-abortion" is
- simply incorrect, just as people who want to enact anti-abortion laws
- but not anti-suicide laws are not "pro-life."
- --
- Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
- "This sounds like a semantico-psychological backwardization of the
- real world image." - Dave Bloom
-