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I don't understand what you mean here. I am not prolife.
That's because those bastards have stolen what it means to be pro life. You are pro life in that you don't want to terminate all the fetuses. They've just stolen what it means to be pro life. It angers me and I'm clearly fighting the fight alone, but I refer to them as anti choice not pro life.
And I can't delete the long quote thread on my phone.
I get what you are saying and I prefer "anti-choice" as well because it's more precise, but I agree with asdfjkl that words matter here. I'd refrain from using the phrase "pro-life" under any circumstances, no matter how angry you are about how the term has been distorted.
The opposite of pro life is not pro choice. The opposite of pro choice is anti choice.
Words do have meaning. Which is why anti choicers don't get the corner on pro life. We're all pro life. Because being pro choice is being pro birth or pro termination.
Anti choicers are anti choicers.
What she means is that pro life is a political designation. Lots of people (maybe not you, but anyway) like to separate themselves morally from abortion even when they are pro choice by saying, "Oh, I am pro choice, but I am certainly pro life, tyvm!". But because pro life is a political label with a very specific meaning, it can endanger the movement if people present this in a poll, questionaire, etc. It gives anti choice politicians and activists ammunition to say, "See how many people are pro life! Time to legislate up in this bitch!" It is better to leave pro life as a political label and not a personal one.
I don't understand what you mean here. I am not prolife.
That's because those bastards have stolen what it means to be pro life. You are pro life in that you don't want to terminate all the fetuses. They've just stolen what it means to be pro life. It angers me and I'm clearly fighting the fight alone, but I refer to them as anti choice not pro life.
And I can't delete the long quote thread on my phone.
Believe me, my friend, I get the rage at they hypocrisy the movement shows by bandying the term about, the rage that the movement fetishizes the fetus while letting the woman's legal rights and autonomy be stripped even if it means her own life and livelihood. Think of it this way: your use of anti choice IS your fight. You are refusing to honor the movement's self-designation. So youmcan leave the political pro life designation out of the equation. If you are feeling ragey, you could also say pro forced birth, lol, but this will be inflammatory.
More seriously, though, don't you think it would be so weird to see the world in such stark, black and white terms? To be unable to understand that someone might believe that each woman has a right to choose her own reproductive future, but also want a baby for herself?
I mean, I don't particularly like babies myself, but that doesn't mean I don't understand that many other people adore them.
So back to the article, that is just silly. The author and her followers pretty much think that pro choice means you literally hate infants and should not ever be having any. I am assuming it is Jill Stanek based on the LifeNews mention. She is the WORST. She believes that the guy who killed Dr. Tiller should not have been convicted of murder because of who Tiller was.
I'd say Chelsea could still quite legitimately say she's sorry her grandmother didn't have access to PP, because she's only just NOW getting pregnant. Meaning she probably has been using birth control up until this point, since she got married right after I did, and that was nearly four years ago.
These are the people that say shit like, "Oh once you get pregnant, you'll become pro-life!"
I guess all this time they've thought that pro-choice people aren't reproducing? Or we were all changing our political stances one we did? Srsly?
I became even MORE pro-choice after being pregnant. I wouldn't want anyone to be forced to go through that against their will.
Same here. The realization that, to some, the fetus is more important than me and really understanding the lengths they are willing to to go to protect an abstract potential life was chilling. Stay out of my fucking uterus.
These are the people that say shit like, "Oh once you get pregnant, you'll become pro-life!"
I guess all this time they've thought that pro-choice people aren't reproducing? Or we were all changing our political stances one we did? Srsly?
My friend got pregnant at 20. She decided to keep the baby and has a lovely 9 year old now.
A year or so ago she posted some pro-choice article on fb with a comment about how she agreed and someone was like "how can you be pro-choice when you had a baby when you did and kept it and see the miracle of life every day?!?!!1!" and she was all "um, cause I got to make the CHOICE to keep the baby and I think everyone should get that choice." lolz.
But people are so dumb re: this article. I sort of wondered if the crazy would find a way to comment on this, just cause so many people hate this family so much.
My friend got pregnant at 20. She decided to keep the baby and has a lovely 9 year old now.
A year or so ago she posted some pro-choice article on fb with a comment about how she agreed and someone was like "how can you be pro-choice when you had a baby when you did and kept it and see the miracle of life every day?!?!!1!" and she was all "um, cause I got to make the CHOICE to keep the baby and I think everyone should get that choice." lolz.
But people are so dumb re: this article. I sort of wondered if the crazy would find a way to comment on this, just cause so many people hate this family so much.
My BFF asked me how I could be prochoice since I had a "special" baby and knew how sad the world would have been without her. I had to leave her house. I would have said something that would have ended the friendship when really, she just doesn't understand the first little bit about it.
oh geez, people suck. I wonder if my friend gets that angle of it too since her second child is Autistic. I don't blame you one bit for having to leave.