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Thread #164045   Message #3921471
Posted By: Steve Shaw
01-May-18 - 05:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Abortion 8th amendment referendum, Eire
Subject: RE: BS: Abortion 8th amendment referendum, Eire
Been here before on this, more than once. The terminology in this debate is shocking. You can be "anti-abortion", no problem with that form of words, but you can't really be "pro-abortion" unless those words are qualified to the absolute limit. I should like to see abortion freely available to all women, no matter what their position in society, but that doesn't mean I'm pro-abortion. Challenge me on that if you dare. "Pro-choice," if you're referring to women's right to choose, is fine. "Pro-life" is simply wicked. It's tendentious, emotional and manipulative, and that's not accidental. The opposite of pro-life is anti-life, or pro-death. The so-called pro-lifers are simply not honest enough to use the appropriate form of words which would characterise their stance, which would be "anti-choice". Doesn't sound quite so good like that, does it? The real answer to reducing abortion, the answer that has somehow escaped the sanctimonious men in frocks, is freely-available contraception, freely-available advice on contraception, good education in schools for relationships (not just sex) and a striving for social equality. But we're going backwards, thanks to social media and the irresponsible proliferation of apps that permit young people to assume the dominance and sense of entitlement of boys over girls sexually. At present, it's a battle we're losing, and we appear to have no strategy to fight back.