For the sake of full disclosure, you should know that this author is 100% Pro-Choice.
Indeed, this is because every woman on Earth has the right to choose.
That is correct, they have the right to choose whether or not to get pregnant.
Now, once they find themselves pregnant that is another matter altogether and at this point we are Pro-Life.
The terminology employed by the Pro-Abortion movement is deceptive psychology. It is, however, only a temporary emotional fix—a band-aid. The “Choice” in “Pro-Choice” and “Choose” in “Right to Choose” refers to the choice of whether to have an abortion or not. That is to say, it is a choice of whether to have a baby or not, a choice of whether to become a parent or not. But once a woman is pregnant the very fact that she is pregnant proves that she has made the choice already. Therefore, Pro-Choice, the Right to Choose, is really the right to change your Choice.
“Planned Parenthood” is a Pro-Abortion organization. The term “Planned Parenthood” should imply that a couple would plan whether or not they want to be parents before engaging in sexual intercourse and not that they are already pregnant and only now start thinking about making the choice as to whether or not to become parents. One woman who had an abortion referred to abortion clinics as “termination services,”[1] another made reference to “selective reduction.”[2]
The real deception in these sorts of purposefully deceptive titles is that they are meant to comfort but they offer a sort of comfort that should not be enjoyed. The comfort they offer is to put across the idea that the time when a couple finds themselves pregnant is the time to decide whether or not to have a baby. This is a comfort because it relieves the couple of any sort of personal responsibility beforehand.
In more modern times terminology has changed in order to make bad actions not sound as bad. This author once overheard a woman say the she was “committed” to her boyfriend but that she did not think that they would get married because if something changed in her life she might leave him. This is not “commitment” this is “convenience,” commitment would be to say, “I am committed to my boyfriend and therefore, no matter what changes, I will be with him and will get married so as to spend our whole lives together.” She was taking commonly understood terminology and redefining it in order to count herself as a loyal committed person when in reality this was not the case at all.
Other examples are saying that people “slept together” rather than saying that they had sex, engaged in intercourse or fornicated. A child in the womb is “aborted” while a child outside the womb is “murdered.” An expecting mother has a “baby” in her womb while a woman who wants an abortion has a “zygote,” “fetus” or “embryo” in her womb. We say “unwanted baby” when the parents partook in activities they knew to result in pregnancy.
You will never hear a woman who is pregnant and looking forward to the birth of her baby saying things such as, “Oh, my zygote just moved,” or “My little fetus doesn’t like spicy food,” nor “I’m knitting little booties for the conception byproduct.”
Let us take off these psychological band-aids and take personal responsibility—harsh reality and all.
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BOOKS:
Bernard Nathanson, The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind
Randy C. Alcorn, Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers
Randy C. Alcorn, Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated
Scott Klusendorf, Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively
ESSAYS:
“Sacred Abortion”
Richard Dawkins – On Abortion, Tadpoles, Rape, Cows, Murder and Sheep
The Exorcist’s Abortion and the Satanist’s Repentance
George Tiller, Abortionist Murders, and the Richard Dawkins Correlation
Is pro-life and pro-death penalty a contradiction?
Dan
Barker – His Views On Human Dignity
The
Abortion Money Machine Rolls Out the Ads in the UK
Pro-abortionists target pro-lifers
Greg Koukl on pro-abortion “logic”
Abortion and the Intolerance of the Pseudo-Tolerant
Abortion and Homosexual Marriage – The Faulty Correlation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Notes:
[1] Dana L., “The GOP Forced Me to Have an Abortion,” The Washington Post, July 8, 2006 AD
[2] Amy Richards (as told to Amy Barrett), “When One Is Enough,” The New York Times, July 18, 2004 AD
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