By stopping it they would be saving “lives”. Pro choice to them is pro death. It’s all perspective.

And their perspective is wrong. And yes, on this issue I am a moral absolutist. As I said in my first post, any claim to respect for life is hollow when it has to be built on the appropriated bodies of already real and living people.

Consider that no living person has the rights that anti-choicers wish to grant a foetus. Does a foetus have a right to live? Actually, yes I think it does. But does it have the right for another’s body to be placed at its disposal regardless of her wishes? No. I have a right to live to, and a right to receive blood should I be traumatically injured. But that right does not extend to another’s blood being forcibly taken to ensure my survival, even in quantities so small as to not harm them. And if that means, I die, I die.

That’s how it is with a foetus. Its right to life does not give it greater rights over a woman’s body than she has herself. And if that means it dies, it dies.

Deny that, and you don’t have a pro-life attitude, you just have a cult of the foetus.

It’s still not neutral. People on the right count the life inside the mother as a person so, as they see it, it’s genocide. By stopping it they would be saving “lives”. Pro choice to them is pro death. It’s all perspective.

Sunless, it’s nowhere near that clear of a distinction. Half of the country would describe you as pro-choice and the other half would describe you as pro-murder.

As for the language, I use language that is accurate. I don’t care what the other side calls themselves, except that it’s false advertising. You can’t call yourself “pro-life” when your policies result in untold deaths of women when implemented. I’m more or less fine with them calling themselves anti-abortion, though. I don’t think it’s entirely accurate, but it’s a huge improvement.

Why? You’re either for the woman having the right to make decisions about her body or you’re against it. Pro-/anti-choice is the only accurate term.

The states are quickly adopting the parental notification issue one by one, it seems to be the one area in this debate where consensus can be reached. Some states go overboard on regulations though, specifically, requiring the mother to see the embryo/fetus before it’s aborted.