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Happyhippychick

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Sun Jul 6, 2014, 11:29 AM Jul 2014

Can we please change the lexicon from "pro life" to "pro birth"? [View all]

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine Catholic nun

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How about just anti-choice. NutmegYankee Jul 2014 #1
This is my preferred term as well. cbayer Jul 2014 #4
Saw this OP and the first thing that came to mind was the term you used... A HERETIC I AM Jul 2014 #22
What about "pro-life Democrats"? Puzzledtraveller Jul 2014 #2
Maybe they need to answer the CLUE PHONE Warpy Jul 2014 #17
Pro-pregnancy. Or anti-sex. snot Jul 2014 #3
More like forced pregnancy. LiberalFighter Jul 2014 #18
More accurately, it is PRO-CONTROL hlthe2b Jul 2014 #5
exactly! Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2014 #6
what you said. nt Agony Jul 2014 #11
How about "anti-women"? Warren Stupidity Jul 2014 #7
How about Forced Birth. n/t charlyvi Jul 2014 #8
more like - "pro-birth-at-any-cost" Agony Jul 2014 #9
I suppose one can be pro-life and pro-choice at the same time? Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2014 #10
That tends to be my personal view Puzzledtraveller Jul 2014 #21
"pro *forced* birth" is more like it unblock Jul 2014 #12
I've also thought it an oxymoron for rethugs to purport being "pro-life" LibGranny Jul 2014 #13
They are Anti Choice. Bluenorthwest Jul 2014 #14
No, they're not pro-life and don't give a shit about birth. They're pro-zygote. nt valerief Jul 2014 #15
Why not "pro breeder" since they consider women to be non human baby incubators? Warpy Jul 2014 #16
anti choice has been around a lot longer. but even our representatives Doctor_J Jul 2014 #19
parenti calls it Compulsory Pregnancy Doctor_J Jul 2014 #20
Forced Birth ljm2002 Jul 2014 #23
How about "Connubial Authorization Bureau, Enforcement Division" JHB Jul 2014 #24
I prefer pro-back alley abortionists. nt Mnemosyne Jul 2014 #25
+1 nt Live and Learn Jul 2014 #26
pro-coat hanger republicans Doctor_J Jul 2014 #32
Assholes who come between doctors and women lunasun Jul 2014 #27
I prefer the term "anti-choice." Kath1 Jul 2014 #28
i use pro-fetus and they don't give a shit about post birth babies. pansypoo53219 Jul 2014 #29
Anti-choice. These people are not "PRO" anything but their own power. Plus, "Pro" carries a positive WinkyDink Jul 2014 #30
this freaking B.S. about "equal opportunity, not equal outcome" the right applies to reproduction. alp227 Jul 2014 #31
+1 !! exactly lunasun Jul 2014 #33
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