Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice Part II
I guess I should have gone into more detail on my last erant, but at the time I was just trying to quickly fire off a little rant over a pet peeve of mine.
My good friend Josh decided to poke at me a bit in the comment section:
You too are using “dirty semantics propaganda” by suggesting that “pro-choice” is dishonest and that it should instead be called “pro-abortion”.
If you have a frank discussion with many people who are pro-choice, you would likely hear sentiments similar to what Rudy Giuliani recently expressed: that they are in fact, personally, against abortion – not pro-abortion, as you would like to call them. However, all things considered they do not believe in legislation that outlaws abortion. There are a myriad of reasons. Obviously, considering your rigid viewpoint, you’re not likely to agree with many of them, so I’ll spare you a list.
Let’s consider these facts:
- The sidebar of this blog advertises The Dennis Kucinich 2008 Presidential campaign
- I have blogged passionately about supporting Dennis Kucinich
- I have contributed to the Kucinich campaign financially
- I intend to volunteer my time in supporting his campaign
Representative Kucinich is a strong supporter of the “pro-choice” position and is at the same time a man whom I admire and consider an intelligent and moral human being. So I think it’s hardly fair to call my anti-abortion views rigid if one means to suggest that they are not nuanced and informed from a consideration of both sides of the argument. Read more
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