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FM123

(10,053 posts)
Fri May 31, 2019, 10:41 AM May 2019

Call it what it is: Anti-Choice

I saw the actress Busy Phillips on tv the other night as she bravely shared her abortion story, and it really struck a chord when she used the term "anti-choice" to describe the other side. That is what we need to name these people - they label us pro-abortion not pro-choice and it is time we call them out for exactly what they are: Anti-Choice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/style/busy-philipps-abortion-youknowme.html

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Call it what it is: Anti-Choice (Original Post) FM123 May 2019 OP
Yup or alternately FORCED PREGNANCY hlthe2b May 2019 #1
i've been calling it anti-choice for ages. i'm thinking of just calling it slavery. unblock May 2019 #2
How about the war against women? still_one May 2019 #3
I tell people that they are not pro life, murielm99 May 2019 #4
I have always called them nykym May 2019 #5

unblock

(52,221 posts)
2. i've been calling it anti-choice for ages. i'm thinking of just calling it slavery.
Fri May 31, 2019, 10:50 AM
May 2019

of maybe pregnancy slavery.

"choice" is correct in terms of describing the freedom the woman has (or legally should have) but it's not very specific and as such, lacks the emotive punch of a words like slavery or life.

maybe if we're going to emphasis the choice, then "anti-freedom" might work better. similarly not very specific, but at least it has punch.

murielm99

(30,739 posts)
4. I tell people that they are not pro life,
Fri May 31, 2019, 11:06 AM
May 2019

they are anti abortion.

I don't care about their crap, their lies, their parsing words any more.

nykym

(3,063 posts)
5. I have always called them
Fri May 31, 2019, 11:14 AM
May 2019
Pro Birth, as that is the only thing they are concerned with.
Once the child is born the rest is up to you.
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