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In reply to the discussion: Please everyone, stop using terms like "anti-abortion" [View all]RZM
(8,556 posts)I think what's odd here is how 'choice' has come to be associated mostly with the abortion issue, when in reality many issues involve choices.
There are plenty of behaviors that some progressives don't want to give people choice on. For instance, vouchers and 'school choice.' Or the choice on which guns people can own and where they can carry them. Are people against legal prostitution against the choice to sell sex? Is being against drug legalization against the choice to consume certain intoxicating substances? You can frame just about any issue as a 'choice' issue. It's not really a left-right thing either. On some issues the right wants more choices. On others they want less or none. Same thing with the left.
I'm not saying I'm necessarily opposed to saying anti-choice. If people prefer that way of phrasing it, then go for it. But I tend to prefer anti-abortion because I think it contains a little more information, i.e. exactly what the issue is (it's not 'choice' in the abstract, but abortion).