What the writer, and pro-abortion groups, fail to grasp is that "Choose Life" is one of the two choices an expectant mother can make. Choosing life is inherently "pro-choice" - but not the way the pro-abortion groups would have it.
I've watched as journalists over the past 6-7 years increasingly drop "Pro-Life" - substituting "Anti-Abortion". It has a subliminal negative sound to it, where "Pro-Life" has a more positive connotation (which most journalists are reluctant to allow).
Am I splitting hairs? Too sensitive? Mebbe so. But I agree with the great philosopher who is on the cutting edge of societal evolution: "Words mean things".
Not that I can see. Consider this sentence from the article:
A federal court in Jacksonville threw out another suit that contended it was unfair to offer "Choose Life" without a companion pro-choice license tag.Liberalism blinds its believers so that they are unaware of their own self-parody. If a plate saying "Choose Life" is to be balanced with a plate carrying the "other side", then what would be on that other plate? Naturally, something that means the opposite, such as "Choose Death", right? But that's too obvious, and besides, I think it's only half of the meaning. I think it likely that they really mean to negate both "life" and (other peoples')"choice." Ergo, "Forced Death" might be a more appropriate slogan.
Of course, they can't say this out loud; after all, the philosopher which you mention also has noted that liberals must hide their true colors when they show themselves in public. So we get a cover-up, feelgood slogan that hides its true meaning, even from those that use it.
The phrase "pro-choice" is a code for anything but.
Dude, it's about nothing but words! The Left understands it and uses it ("choice", "gaiety", "affirmative action", "racism", etc,) the Right is too often clueless - just watch the use of these terms here on FR. I insist that once you employ their terms, you've lost the argument before it even started. To answer another question in your post, the Left understands the "Choose Life" message, which is why they've been fighting it so hard. It is a brilliant reposte using the Left's highly effective methods. We ought to do more initiatives like it.