re: #144 Salamantis

Many people who are opposed to abortion are not just people who would never have one themselves; they are people who would outlaw the procedure for everyone if they could, and many of them relentlessly strive to do just that. That is the very definition of imposing one’s own moral position upon unwilling others.

Pro-choicers are fine with other women choosing to carry their pregnancies to term, and fine with other women choosing to terminate them, if it is done early. In other words, they are fine with the women concerned choosing for themselves what happens with and within their own bodies. Thus, they cannot be accurately described as pro-abortion (that would be the Chinese government, which mandates abortions for all Chinese women after a single childbirth), but as pro-choice.

Many antiabortionists, on the other hand, are actually anti-choice, and not just for themselves, but for all women. They would, if they could (and they keep working on it) legally eliminate the choice of pregnancy termination from the array of alternatives open to women, leaving only one avenue open - to carry each and every pregnancy to term - and that is no choice at all; it is in fact the death of choice -or to be more specific, it’s murder.

There ya go, Salamantis, and it’s tiresome.
I have a deep deep antipathy and hatred for the abortion procedure.
I am pro-life, anti-abortion.
However, abortion t is legal, and there is nothing I can do to make it otherwise. I accept that.

And again, MY energies will be spent doing whatever I can legally and with moral and financial support to encourage and support OTHER choices.

And that is MY decision to make, mine alone, and it does NOT impose ANYTHING on anyone else, but your insistence that I call myself “pro-choice” instead of “pro-life” or “anti-abortion” IS an imposition on me.