Think of me as your bridge between the manipulation and hyperbole of modern American speech and the dictionary. I know the corporations, network TV cartoonism, Hollywood, suburban moms, Evangelical zealots, Oprah, politicians on both sides and homeschoolers have all worked to degrade the language, general knowledge and truth. Global climate change to describe global warming, Bush's clean skies initiative, the war on terror, socialism, Liberal, conservative have been abused, politicized or reframed to demonize or hide intentions. Perhaps no word has been abused as much as choice. So in today's class boy's and girls we will cover the word choice.
The American Heritage College Dictionary(It was the most patriotic dictionary I could find, until Pat Robertson writes the Jesus Spoke to me while I was wrapped Naked in the American Flag while masturbating to a picture of George Bush on a Thousand Dollar Bill Dictionary) defines CHOICE as: THE ACT OF CHOOSING; SELECTION. THE POWER, RIGHT OR LIBERTY TO CHOOSE; OPTIONS. A NUMBER-NUMBER-NUMBER OR VARIETY FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE.
The anti abortion crowd frequently enjoys the freedom to choose, without granting that privilege to others. they choose the course for others lives. They choose to impose their values by trying to erase or stifle the opinions of others through legislation or through selective religious guilt. They choose to call abortion doctors BABY killers, and those who champion a woman's right to make profoundly important decisions concerning their own life and health as pro-abortion.
No one is PRO abortion. No one gets up and says hey, lets yank a fetus out of a woman today. Whew-hoo, party! Pro-choice means not imposing your religious or moral values on someone else. And it isn't murder. If your definition was so broad and all-encompassing to include abortion as murder than you wouldn't also be FOR war and the death penalty. Read a book, mind your own business, climb down from your ivory SUV and teach values you hold sacred to your children instead of forcing everyone that doesn't see the world through your eyes and your experiences into some moral and social gulag
Its true what they say. This is better than therapy. I need a nap.
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War likewise (using the US as an example) requires either a declaration by Congress or their tacit approval under war powers acts. Not unilateral decisions to go bomb places and cause strife. It's a collective power, not an issue of personal liberty or caprice. And, yes, that includes current US military actions. Congress gave this administration authorization to conduct these actions.
In contrast, abortion is a very private matter that affects a pregnant female and/or her family and those around her should *she* want to consult them. Or not. It's unilateral. It's her choice. It's about the right of one individual to choose when she has a child. It's not a collective decision, it's a matter of personal liberty.
I understand what you're trying to get at, but these issues aren't moral equivalents or absolutes (and most pro-lifers aren't fringe absolutists who would deny abortions to save mother's lives or in cases of rape or incest). A fetus isn't a rapist-murderer isn't a nation that bombs Pearl Harbor. The arguments about each of those is unique, but you're muddling the central one about personal liberty as if it relates to the other two. We treat rapist-murderers very differently from anyone else in society: we either lock them up for a very long time or we execute them after a very long time. We treat those who threaten us very differently from those who don't. If a nation attacks us or threatens us, we have an obligation to fight back and defend ourselves. But the right to choose when to have a child has absolutely nothing to do with issues of criminal justice (death penalty) or national sovereignty (war).
Most people are no more pro-war than they are pro-abortion, and I don't think most people would personally want to be present at an execution despite the outrage over crimes that receive a lot of attention or support for the death penalty. While I agree with you on the issue of choice, bringing up bad analogies only muddles the message about a personal liberty issue. It's not hypocritical to see these issues distinctly since they *are* distinct.
Roe v Wade was decided as a matter of privacy: as in the 4th amendment in the Bill of Rights.
There are terms for trying to split so many hairs and not go bald (so to speak) it is called cognitive dissonance.
Well written and I agree with everything you wrote on this issue.[THUMBUP]