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Old Dec 1, 2004, 09:32 pm   #11 (permalink) (top)
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I guess I'm a little unclear on how you're differentiating between pro-choice and pro-abortion. I always assumed someone who is pro-choice supported the legality of abortions thereby allowing any person who wants an abortion access to it, while those who don't want one don't have to get one. To me the term pro-abortion would signal a more nialistic view of being anti-procreation, supporting a view that human procreation is a parasite on the earth and therefore we should not procreate but should stop breeding all together.

I've always identified as pro-choice. I'd be interested in how you came to the differentiation between pro-choice and pro-abortion in the way that you did.
Excellent point SVMc. In essense, "pro-choice" IS pro abortion. As we are a society of labels we need SOMETHING to differentiate the two and pro-choice seems to fit. Perhaps the thoroughly confusing "anti-pro-life" would be more appropriate. In other words, being personally against abortion but not wanting to allow the pro-life group to deny abortion for those who DO want it.
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