Can we please change the lexicon from "pro life" to "pro birth"?

[Happyhippychick]

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine Catholic nun

[NutmegYankee]

1. How about just anti-choice.

I think it's funny the wackjobs think they are pro-life while supporting a known terrorist movement responsible for many murders and thousands of acts of violence, including bombings.

At the end of the day, they really do hate us for our freedoms.

[cbayer]

4. This is my preferred term as well.

It's all about choice, not life.

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. Saw this OP and the first thing that came to mind was the term you used...

and lo and behold, it's the first response!

You're right - they aren't "pro-life" they are anti choice. Almost every single pro-life person I have ever talked to was also pro death penalty.

Also, the idea of them being "pro" insinuates the opposiye is "anti" which is complete horseshit. No pro-choice person I have ever met was "anti-life", nor were they "pro-abortion" as the right likes to paint us.

Keep abortion safe, legal and RARE

Well said there, NutmegYankee!

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. What about "pro-life Democrats"?

[Warpy]

17. Maybe they need to answer the CLUE PHONE

and realize their idolatry of the fertilized ovum ends where their skin does.

[snot]

3. Pro-pregnancy. Or anti-sex.

[LiberalFighter]

18. More like forced pregnancy.

[hlthe2b]

5. More accurately, it is PRO-CONTROL

when ALL women finally realize it is merely a means to maintain them as chattel for controlling and often abusive "religious" men, the better.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. exactly!

[Agony]

11. what you said. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

7. How about "anti-women"?

[charlyvi]

8. How about Forced Birth. n/t

[Agony]

9. more like - "pro-birth-at-any-cost"

I am pro-choice, pro-life and pro-birth, just not at any cost.

"Control-Freak" works for me

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. I suppose one can be pro-life and pro-choice at the same time?

One could have a personal view of pro-life but pro-choice for every one.

A dirty old male judge/politician should not have control over a women's reproductive system.

[Puzzledtraveller]

21. That tends to be my personal view

"personal" meaning it does not extend to supporting the removal of choice for others. I watched a interview with John Kerry in the run up to the 2004 election and which he explained his belief in similar terms. I cannot be a supporter of individual liberty and freedom and against government intrusion into our personal lives and at the same time advocate the restriction and removal of the right to choose.

[unblock]

12. "pro *forced* birth" is more like it

but the truth is that they only care about the fetus so long as it's useful in controlling a woman.

interesting how the minute the fetus is born and they cannot so easily use the baby to control the woman, they no longer care so much about the baby.

[LibGranny]

13. I've also thought it an oxymoron for rethugs to purport being "pro-life"

but have no hesitation whatever in sending young men and women to war to be killed or maimed for life! I guess the ONLY life they are concerned with is the fetus'.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. They are Anti Choice.

They are not pro anything.

[valerief]

15. No, they're not pro-life and don't give a shit about birth. They're pro-zygote. nt

[Warpy]

16. Why not "pro breeder" since they consider women to be non human baby incubators?

"Pro prize cow" would also be an option. It would force people to look at how these fucking jerks look at half the human race.

I am so sick of this. I wish the people who developed that flu super virus would figure out a way to make it zero in on these pro slavery, arrogant, evil bastards.

[Doctor_J]

19. anti choice has been around a lot longer. but even our representatives

say pro life. They're brainwashed

[Doctor_J]

20. parenti calls it Compulsory Pregnancy

That takes in the anti choice and anti birth control aspects simultaneously

[ljm2002]

23. Forced Birth

It is short and exactly descriptive of what these people stand for, which is: If you find yourself pregnant, then by Gum, you're gonna carry that baby to term and you're gonna birth it! It doesn't have a brain? Too bad, it's the will of God and you will carry that precious life to term and any suffering you experience is just your lot due to original sin (or something like that). Product of rape? Too bad, it's the will of God... (you get the drift).

Forced birth. That's what they stand for.

[JHB]

24. How about "Connubial Authorization Bureau, Enforcement Division"

"Judgement Brigade, Flying Scold Squad"

'pro-"shoulda" '

How many times do these people let out the phrase "shouldn't have spread her legs in the first place" or some variant? They're against contraception in any form -- and warp definitions as needed to justify enforcing that view on everyone else. Health of the mother is put in quotes like "medicinal alcohol" during Prohibition -- a trumped up dodge for scoundrels to get around The Right Thing.

What they are against is Unauthorized Sex, with their own very narrow view of what constitutes "authorized". When these people get themselves beet-red, clenched-teeth angry, it's always over the sex part.

[Mnemosyne]

25. I prefer pro-back alley abortionists. nt

[Live and Learn]

26. +1 nt

[Doctor_J]

32. pro-coat hanger republicans

[lunasun]

27. Assholes who come between doctors and women

Of course once they stop an abortion their concern is none

[Kath1]

28. I prefer the term "anti-choice."

Contraception, birth control and abortion should be EVERY woman's option. Period. I have NO room for compromise on this.

[pansypoo53219]

29. i use pro-fetus and they don't give a shit about post birth babies.

[WinkyDink]

30. Anti-choice. These people are not "PRO" anything but their own power. Plus, "Pro" carries a positive

connotation.

[alp227]

31. this freaking B.S. about "equal opportunity, not equal outcome" the right applies to reproduction.

ugh. so inhumane as Chittister puts it: "...your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed."

[lunasun]

33. +1 !! exactly