JUST. STOP. IT.

[merrily]

23. Yep. This is why no one who is pro-choice should use the term "pro-life" or let

anyone who is not truly pro-life get away with using it.

If someone doesn't believe in protecting life that is outside the womb from hunger, illness, war, random shootings, state mandated murder or other unnecessary suffering or unnecessary death, that person is anti-choice, period. Please label them correctly as "anti-choice," even "anti-women's health" and push back every time anyone in your presence claims to be pro-choice.

Words matter. Frank Lunz (to name only one) has made a lucrative career out of choosing different words for awful things, to make them sound less awful. That's because words influence how we think and how we think influences how we speak and act.

A bit of history on the linguistics of the subject for those who may not know: The lingo started with "anti-abortion" and "pro-abortion."

Then, pro-choice people got that they were not pushing abortions, per se, but advocating only that a woman should have a right to make choices about her own body and her own health needs. (No one cheerleads for abortion per se.) So, they dropped the inaccurate "pro-abortion and substituted the more accurate "pro-choice."

For about a minute and a half (figuratively), the two sides were "pro-choice" and "anti-abortion." That was not accurate, either, though because, as Hobby Lobby showed, it is not only abortion they are against. And they do not limit their opposition to their own lives, but insist on removing choice from others as well. Also, "anti-abortion" implied the other side of the issue was proabortion, which it is not.

Soon after "pro-choice" came into use, the anti-choice people claimed they were not really "anti" anything. They were simply "pro-life." And our disgusting media immediately took up that lie. A huge lie from people who never (until Obama?) met an alleged casus belli they couldn't get behind, who applauded Ron Paul when he mentioned the specter of someone's dropping dead outside an Emergency Room door for lack of health insurance, who applaud their Governors when they speak of how many their state executed that year, who begrudge every penny that does not go to private profits, etc.

Pro-Life? I think not. It is not merely a word choice. It's a huge lie. Don't let anyone get away with a lie that huge.