The topic question makes no sense. Please rephrase.
Hoping to change this perception, John Willke, the President of National Right to Life, came upon a simple solution. He insisted that his fellow anti-abortion advocates stop using the phrase “anti-abortion,” opting instead for the term “pro-life.” Although the term pro-life had been used haphazardly by anti-abortion groups previously, Willke felt it was imperative that the term become the only label for those fighting against abortion.
The label made sense, both in practice and in perception. Abortion is the direct killing of innocent life, so using the term “pro-life” denoted that being against abortion was being for life. Likewise, it was an effective marketing strategy. Pro-abortion forces claimed to be “for” something (“choice”); now anti-abortion forces were for something even more fundamental: life itself.
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But like the return of 1970’s fashion, it’s back. Now we hear over and over, from self-proclaimed pro-lifers, that a given issue is a “pro-life issue.
”Racism is a pro-life issue. Poverty is a pro-life issue. Health Care is a pro-life issue. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, dogged supporters of the seamless garment argument, recently stressed that opposition to current immigration policies is a “life issue.”
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As for me, I’ve come to realize that I’m no longer pro-life. Just call me anti-abortion. It’s accurate, specific, and tells the whole world that I’m unabashedly opposed to child-killing.
..I doubt anyone here is interested in being placed on the defensive by a poster with all of two posts under his belt,.
..Pro-Life is a euphemism for [anti-]abortion.
Even the term abortion is a euphemism. You abort a space flight, a computer program...…… The correct term should be Infanticide.
..Some great comments above lads. Personally I refer to abortion as baby killing, for that is what it is.
However, I once went to a 'pro-life' meeting filled with Catholics and priests and asked why don't Catholic 'pro-lifers' include the fact that abortions send babies to their deaths without Baptism, preventing them from ever enjoying the Beatific Vision, a fate worse than being murdred after baptism. That might change the minds of some Catholic women thinking about abortion I said..There was silence in the hall until I was told a priest would talk to me after the meeting. None took up the task. One person came up to me and said Pope John Paul II said that such babies go straight to heaven. I replied why would Catholics try to stop abortion so, as it is the surest way to get into heaven, given the chances are far less if they lived and died.
I came to the conclusion that these 'pro-lifers were humanist pro-lifers. I never attended their meetings again..
Please note before you answer there's more than life to birth. Welfare statists seem to grasp thisWhy do we need to explain our position? Why aren't we asking them why they are in favor of gaining control of other people's money (i.e., the taxation needed for government managed welfare) but not in favor of banning killing babies while still in the womb?