re: #324 iceweasel

I updinged you, but I always maintain here that the ‘pro-life’ label is misleading.

Genuine ‘pro-life’ people want all the same things the prochoice people want, (or should): keep abortion safe, legal, and rare, make birth control, education, emergency contraception, and adoption available— and care for women not only when they’re pregnant, and children not only while in utero, but afterwards. A world in which people only have children because they want to, and every child has a family that wants and loves him (or her).

These are all areas in which all pro-choice people, and most pro-life people, agree. The labels keep us from consolidating all the positions where we agree and working together on the policies we all agree on.

The Army of God, Operation Rescue, and assorted wingnuts who would deny abortion even to incest and rape victims don’t care about women, still less about children, and are invested in controlling women’s sexual and reproductive lives. Those assholes need to be marginalised and stopped.
And they don’t deserve the label of ‘pro-life’, either. They’re anti-choice, anti-women, anti-sex, and theocrats.

Pro-Life is a political term invented to counteract the Pro-Choice meme. Who isn’t Pro-life?