I'm pro-choice.

[jazzfish]

There's not much else that needs to be said, but why let that stop me.

The decision to terminate a pregnancy involves two people: the woman whose pregnancy it is, and Nobody Else.

Abortion clinic protesters and firebombers, and other such domestic terrorists acting in the name of saving unborn babies, would be better served attacking in vitro fertilization clinics. Of course, if they did that they wouldn't get to feel all superior by shaming the dirty sluts.

Not that the anti-choicers have any semblance of moral consistency in any case.

Really, the minute you make an exception "in cases of rape or incest" you've given up on the whole "it's a child not a choice" nonsense. Murder is murder; why are you punishing an unborn child for having a rapist for a father?

Ezra Klein is a smart guy. I'm happy to see him attack the "abortion is icky" thinking that pervades a great deal of pro-choice dialogue.

Happy anniversary, RvW. May you see many more.

Comments

[rbandrews]

My guess would be because "pro-choice" sounds like "have an abortion if you want" and "pro-abortion" sounds like "have an abortion because your genetic material is unworthy". That's the connotation I would get, at any rate.

[dasphios.livejournal.com]

It's a big leap from legal support to eugenics, but it's an even bigger one from reproductive freedom to freedom in general.

[rbandrews]

But the connotational leap from abortions to choice has already been made. You say "pro-choice", everyone knows what you're talking about. He's using the terminology that's out there, that's all.