One would think this would be obvious
The Curt Jester remarks on something that I’ve also found frustrating in the past:link-icon:: why do so many “pro-choice” (choice of what? Hair products?) advocates refuse any attempt to label them as pro-abortion? Why do they deny the charge?
If you say that abortion is an acceptable course of action then you are in fact pro-abortion. There is often an equivocation about letting it be a choice for somebody else to make. But again if you support somebody in their choice of action you are in favor of that action happening. If I said it was okay for an individual to choose to go around shooting people or not based on their preference, I would in fact be pro-murder even if I never shot someone myself.
I think abortion supporters get upset about being called pro-abortion because they do no[t] really believe what they say they believe. Very few will admit that it is murder, but that they still believe the women has the right to murder in this circumstance. Instead they will talk about reducing abortion and never explain why “an acceptable moral choice” needs reducing. They will call abortion a right, but as others have noted can point to no other right that needs reducing. They set up a barricade of linguistic obstacles such as being pro-choice (they don’t mind the “pro” in this case) as if anybody in the world was anti-choice. It is like saying you are pro-air. The reality of abortion must be obscured in a cloud of words so that what you say you are supporting doesn’t sound all that bad. The morality of abortion in phrased in the circumstance of the pregnant women instead of addressing whether they are killing a person or not.
And so it goes. Much of progressive thought seems caught up in attempting to mangle or misappropriate the meanings of words, of attempts to control, recast, or recategorize the dialogue. It’s fundamentally dishonest, of course. And people who will tend to use such linguistic dodges tend also to become very angry indeed when one offers a more honest appraisal of their views.
“I’m not ‘pro-abortion,’ but I think abortion should be legal.”
“I’m not ‘pro-slavery,’ but I think slavery should be legal.”
What’s the difference?
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