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ljm2002

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23. Forced Birth

Reply to Happyhippychick (Original post)

Sun Jul 6, 2014, 12:12 PM

Jul 2014

It is short and exactly descriptive of what these people stand for, which is: If you find yourself pregnant, then by Gum, you're gonna carry that baby to term and you're gonna birth it! It doesn't have a brain? Too bad, it's the will of God and you will carry that precious life to term and any suffering you experience is just your lot due to original sin (or something like that). Product of rape? Too bad, it's the will of God... (you get the drift).

Forced birth. That's what they stand for.

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Can we please change the lexicon from "pro life" to "pro birth"? [View all] Happyhippychick Jul 2014 OP

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