Reply #133: As someone who is unapologetically pro-choice... [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

I think that the semantics you are referring to have to deal with the fact that, under any circumstances, surgical abortion is not a desireable outcome. I think pretty much everyone -on OUR side, at least- agrees that it is preferable for everyone concerned to prevent the pregnancy in the first place.

Safe, legal, affordable, effective and accessible birth control should be a no-brainer of a "middle ground" in the abortion wars.. but it isn't- because the major "pro-life" organizations and groups in this country are simultaneously waging a secret, and not-so-secret, war on birth control as well. Half of the agenda is criminalization of abortion, the other half will be to go after all forms of contraception that don't involve just telling people to stop fucking.

Pro-abortion? Abortion is a surgical procedure. It should be avoided if possible. Certainly preventing the pregnancy in the first place is safer. plan B contraception and RU-486 are less invasive. "Choice", to me, is a catch-all term that means even if people disagree about the morality of certain reproductive options for themselves, the decision should be left up to the person whose reproductive system it is, and not left in the hands of big-hair televangelists and moralizing, self-righteous poltiticians.