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HerlinClTuesday, January 25, 2011 at 2:34:00 PM EST
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It's the Roe v. Wade blog-a-thon, and I felt that my crusade for honesty is still well suited for this topic. Let's discuss the names "pro-life" and "pro-choice."
"Pro-life" sounds so noble, so good. I guess using "anti-choice" wouldn't work though, would it. That sounds so negative. Generally, it's Republican candidates on this side of the fence. I find it interesting that they want to keep the government out of everybody's business, (i.e. healthcare), but want to make choices for a mother.
More interesting to me, however, is the fact that many bills to limit abortion allow for exceptions in case of rape or incest. If the collection of cells that will become a fetus has rights, why are its rights suddenly null and void because of who the father was/how the baby was conceived?
"Pro-life" sounds so noble, so good. I guess using "anti-choice" wouldn't work though, would it. That sounds so negative. Generally, it's Republican candidates on this side of the fence. I find it interesting that they want to keep the government out of everybody's business, (i.e. healthcare), but want to make choices for a mother.
More interesting to me, however, is the fact that many bills to limit abortion allow for exceptions in case of rape or incest. If the collection of cells that will become a fetus has rights, why are its rights suddenly null and void because of who the father was/how the baby was conceived?
On the other hand, there is "pro-choice." I've often heard this called "pro-abortion," but to me, this makes no sense. I have never met a person who loves abortions, who thinks everybody should have one. The advocacy is for allowing a mother to make the choice, rather than having it made for her. Therefore, "pro-abortion" isn't really appropriate.
When I start seeing people out and about talking about "how great their abortion was," and "how much they loved it," then I'll reconsider the "pro-abortion" moniker.
Be honest, those of you who are "pro-life." You are anti-choice, because nobody is saying death or abortions are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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1) They believe that the language of the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause provides and protects the unborn.
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2) They believe Roe v. Wade never should have decided by the Supreme Court, particularly on the basis of it being a right to privacy and the fact it had no real legal precedent. To quote Justice Byron White in his dissent in the case: "I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. ... As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court."