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Showing Original Post only (View all)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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Can we please change the lexicon from "pro life" to "pro birth"? [View all]
Happyhippychick
Jul 2014
OP
Saw this OP and the first thing that came to mind was the term you used...
A HERETIC I AM
Jul 2014
#22
No, they're not pro-life and don't give a shit about birth. They're pro-zygote. nt
valerief
Jul 2014
#15
Anti-choice. These people are not "PRO" anything but their own power. Plus, "Pro" carries a positive
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#30