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To: Kaslin

Oh, ok, Andrea, but it’s not a value-neutral issue. If I’m anti-abortion, then surely you’ll be ok with being called pro-abortion? What? No. You’re pro-choice? I figured so.

Leftists love to use the language to their advantage. For example, they like to use terms like zygote, embryo, and fetus to refer to the baby in the womb. They use the scientific terms to say the baby is not a person, rather than a person in a specific stage of development.

They don’t like the term pro-life because it sounds good to those in the middle on this issue, so they now want to change the term to anti-abortion. That makes it easier for them to call people who oppose abortion anti-woman misogynists rather than people concerned about the life which in the womb.

The term for them used to be pro-abortion, but they changed that to pro-choice. They don’t like the term pro-abortion. They say that being pro-abortion means that you support abortion for everyone and not the choice for it. That’s so ludicrous it’s laughable. When people are pro-gay marriage, it means people support the right to gay marriage, not that they all want to get married to someone of the same sex. When people are pro-gun, it doesn’t mean they believe everyone has to own a gun; it means they believe everyone has a right to own a gun. These movements don’t call themselves “pro-choice” because “choice” is a general term. You have to specify which choice you want. A part of them has to be afraid the term “abortion” will turn people away. If abortion is such a wonderful thing, why be ashamed of being pro-abortion?


24 posted on 01/10/2013 1:32:08 AM PST by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell
For example, they like to use terms like zygote, embryo, and fetus to refer to the baby in the womb.

Yet for the bulging belly of pregnant celebrities they use the phrase "baby bump", not "fetus bump".

26 posted on 01/10/2013 9:32:44 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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