Seeing the country becoming increasingly pro-life is proving distressing for many pro-choicers. Not distressing enough, mind you, to reassess their position on the humanity of the unborn but enough to consider changing tactics.
Los Angeles Times columnist Nancy Cohen hit the pro-choice panic button in a piece yesterday by suggesting that the cultural shift is the result of word wars. She frets that the term “pro-life” has gained the upper hand in the nomenclature war over “pro-choice” in the American mind.
On a side note, this perceived upper hand is a testament to the ascent of new media and the irrepressible pro-life movement that the term “pro-life” is known at all in that it has suffered from all but a complete media blackout. In fact, the only time the media uses the term is when someone in the pro-life movement does something not very pro-life and the media scoffs by introducing them as “supposedly pro-life…”
But Cohen’s suggestion is most remarkable for being one of the worst and most crass examples of rhetorical gamesmanship since “Freedom fries.”
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June 1, 2010 at 2:29 pm
When will the pro-aborts stop begging the question? Will they ever read F. Beckwith's book _Defending Life_ which takes up a large percentage of its pages to deal with popular "begging the question" views.
For what it's worth, I came up with the terms PAAAC and OTAAAC as being more accurate terms than prochoice and prolife, resp.
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June 1, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Words do indeed get in the way. The one that sprung to my mind at the outset of reading this post was "truth." That one definitely has an uncanny ability to get in the way when you are on the wrong side of it.
But I can offer some advice to their side to provide some equality in their fight. They need to consider making their position stronger by renaming the "pro-choice" movement as what it really stands for, "PRO-DEATH."
June 2, 2010 at 5:09 am
Why should a woman have the right to end the life of a healthy unborn baby, or even a baby who is not so healthy. How is the law ethical that one woman can abort the life of her unborn baby and another seek all means of medical attention to save her baby. All human life is deserving of support,comfort and defense at any stage.