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Up till now I've used the term 'pro-life'....

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GrimmaTheNome · 15/11/2012 08:29

Usually in quotes...but even so...

Clearly enough in the light of the tragic case in Galway, this is an oxymoron.

I want a more accurate term - should it be 'anti-choice' or is there something better I should use?

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OneLittleToddlingTerror · 15/11/2012 10:16

Grimma in the Galway case it's still an abortion. The foetus has a heartbeat. The doctors removed the foetus once its heartbeat is stopped. If the doctor helped removed the foetus when the woman started miscarrying, then they'd have helped killed a living being.

I understood where these people are coming from. But I'm pro-choice because honest I think women should have a say over our own bodies. Even in late term abortions, it's usually very very sad cases that end up there.

SoggyMoggy · 15/11/2012 10:04

I tend to use 'anti/pro abortion rights'.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 15/11/2012 09:56

I say 'anti abortion', but then I am uncomfortable with that too, especially in this case. No-one is really 'pro abortion', especially a woman miscarrying a wanted baby.

'Woman-haters'?

Snazzyfeelingfestive · 15/11/2012 09:44

It's very difficult to find suitable terms. I have no problem with anti-choice as it makes the terms used about either side more symmetrical. Then again anti-abortion makes the situation crystal clear. Pro life is definitely highly ironic.

YoullScreamAboutItOneDay · 15/11/2012 09:44

Um, I guess because I don't feel abortion is about choice per say in many cases. For many women it is about necessity - financial, emotional, physical. So I feel anti-choice implies being anti those who 'simply' choose that now is not the right time for a baby. Whereas the reality is that they are against something much wider. So I think it kind of glosses over the reality.

Does that make sense?

ProcrastinatingPanda · 15/11/2012 09:39

Why do you feel that it's an odd choice?

YoullScreamAboutItOneDay · 15/11/2012 09:18

I tend to feel anti-choice is a bit odd as a phrase. I say anti-abortion, or sometimes, depending on context, anti-legal abortion (because it's not as if making it illegal stops it, it just stops it being legal and safe).

I don't actually like pro-choice either, but obviously pro-abortion is wrong. Very few people are really 'pro-abortion'. I think we'd probably all rather a woman didn't have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. If anyone can come up with a better phrase than pro-choice I'd like that too!

AliceWChild · 15/11/2012 08:58

Yes please don't buy into their rhetoric with 'pro life'. Anti choice or anti abortionist.

ProcrastinatingPanda · 15/11/2012 08:49

I think anti-choice is a more suitable term.

slightlycrumpled · 15/11/2012 08:47

I was incensed watching an interview with a staunch pro- lifer in the news this morning about this. It's truly incomprehensible that this has happened.

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GrimmaTheNome · 15/11/2012 08:45

In the galway case it wasn't really an abortion that was reqested , it was medical treatment of an inevitable miscarriage.

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SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 15/11/2012 08:30

Anti Abortion Above All Else