Posted on 01/09/2013 6:42:10 PM PST by Kaslin
My (rhetorical) question is this: Why would a pro-abortion--or, "pro-choice" if you're looking for something more value neutral--advocate like Andrea Mitchell want the issue of life and death to be "value-neutral"?
Here's a little nugget I came across today from Pastor John MacArthur: "They keep saying, 'A school is supposed to be a safe place!' Yeah well so is a womb.
Andrea Mitchell Corrects Guest Who Called Herself "Pro-Life": "Anti-Abortion Is More Value-Neutral"
And the woman being interviewed agreed with her...thus, allowing herself to be labeled.
This is to be expected from Andrea Mitchell, she’s a liberal leftist ditz.
Of course we all know that:)
Is an aborted fetus alive?
Is a fetus that arrives full-term alive?
If you favor the latter and oppose the former, what exactly is the problem with the term “pro-life”? (other than the obvious contrast with the desires of those who disagree with you, which is in fact why they need to fall back on euphmisms to live with their cavalier attitude to the destruction of human life).
Whoever controls the semantics controls the debate, and you need to slap them down hard as soon as you catch them trying to do it, or you’re going to lose.
The “term” anti-abortion is NOT value-neutral. It takes a position: it is “anti” abortion. So, her logic is wrong. But, that was not her point. Her point (as in any debate) is to control the definition of the terms. This is standard procedure for any debate. Once the definitions of the terms has been agreed to, the debate can begin. (As a side note: whenever liberals get into a debate about any issue, they always try to move the shading of the terms. So, for example, a cut in spending is when they reduce the amount of the proposed increase to a smaller increase. The important thing to remember is once you allow a term to be defined, the debate proceeds from that point. You cannot go back and redefine a term in mid-debate. This is why we lose so often.)
I have never referred to myself as anti anything. The other side might refer to me that way, but I do not. When the pro-abortionist (see, aren’t I being kind) refer to me as anti-abortion, I always correct them. I am pro-life. I will not automatically cede the definition of the terms to them, as this is, in part what rules the debate.
I am pro-life. They are pro-abortion. In the debate on this issue these terms can suffice. We are both in favor of a position. Now, let the debate begin.
Hey Andrea....ya festering lesbian dwarf!
You’re a wild-eyed baby-killin’ muncher. How’s that for “value neutral”?
ROCKLOBSTER
(PS Sarah Palin says Hi)
Got me a new tagline...
New tag line:
A school is supposed to be a safe place? Yeah well, so is the womb.
Unless you have heard the whole interview, which I haven’t; the video is only 44 seconds, so I can’t tell
Remove God.
Dumb followers of her party too stupid to see they are killing more minorities while claiming to care about them. Kinda hard to get passed that.
Time to turn this gun ‘debate’ 180 degrees and make it about truly protecting life. Planned Parenthood alone murdered 333,964 babies in 2011, versus 8,583 people murdered by gun.
This 44 seconds, which opens up the interview, lays the ground for their discussion and all you need to see to understand my point. Mitchell, a liberal, open with associating her guest with Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft (very conservative), then, after broaching the topic (moving the Republican Party away from extreme views of women’s reproductive rights, introduces her guest, who says, “I’m very pro-life” (paraphrasing here), to which Mitchell immediately, almost under her breath, counters, “Let’s call it anti-abortion...the more value-neutral term...” (again, paraphrasing). To which her guest, almost without thinking, accedes.
Mitchell has taken control of the debate at that point. The debate is no longer about life, but a medical procedure...at the least, it has shifted away from consideration of the unborn and squarely onto consideration solely of the mother carrying the unborn. This is what happens in the abortion debate. The terms being set by the liberal, the pro-abortion/pro-choice individual has moved the debate by defining the terms.
Wow. I think we should email the network, because Andrea Mitchell made herself the story. That is not journalism; that’s opinion and commentary.
On a side note, I think I may be coming down with the flu. Can’t keep my eyes open. Does anyone else have this? I’ve been wiping down surfaces with Lysol all day. I should have a glass of Pepsi to open my eyes and be able to post coherently. :)
I’ll see if I can find contact info for Ms. Mitchell and more importantly, her boss.
When it comes to life, there sohould not be value-neutrality.....
When it comes to life, there sohould not be value-neutrality.....
Boo-yah.
:D
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