We should not be pro abortion!

[Ms. Toad]

169. You are obviously not encountering the same pro-abortion people I have,

Including on DU, who are actively advocating for taking choice away, and/or shaming women who choose to have several children- or to bear a child and give it up for adoption.

The tactics of at least significant portion of people who identify themselves as pro-abortion may not be as extreme as those who identify as pro-abortion - but their position is every bit as much advocating for a specific choice (abortion) rather than for every woman to be able to make the choice that is right for her.

It is none of my business if a woman who has 5 children wants a 6th. It is her right to make that choice. Just as it was my mother's right to choose to seek an abortion for what would have been her 6th child (4 by adoption). There are DU pro-abortion members who would have condemned the former for her choice just as surely as pro-life advocates would condemn my mother. Neither is appropriate - it is none of our business. Our business is ensuring the right of all women to make either choice. Hence pro-choice. It is not a word chosen not to offend; it is literally what I mean.