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Demsrule86

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6. I am pro-choice...I have choice over my own body.

Reply to Maraya1969 (Original post)

Mon Apr 24, 2017, 08:12 AM

Apr 2017

I do not consider the other side pro-life but anti-choice...and I am a woman who was almost killed by a pro-life doctor during a miscarriage and left infertile. I have told this story several times on DU so I won't bore you with it now...but abortion is an important health issue for women.

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Since when did abortion become between "choice" and "life"? [View all] Maraya1969 Apr 2017 OP

not entirly following you... Takket Apr 2017 #1

No it is about the right to privacy Maraya1969 Apr 2017 #8

When PR guys got into it and labeled it for us. Warpy Apr 2017 #2

Immediately after Roe vs Wade passed the backlash started. That's when. nt Hekate Apr 2017 #3

What Hekate said. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2017 #4

One small note with regard to your statement: Bettie Apr 2017 #7

It took me too long to get my head out of my ass on that point, alas Orrex Apr 2017 #11

Choice and Freedom are not dirty words. Warren DeMontague Apr 2017 #5

I am pro-choice...I have choice over my own body. Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #6

I never heard it. Can you give me the gist? Maraya1969 Apr 2017 #9

People tend to be pro-choice...meaning women have a say over their own bodies...now Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #10

I'd rather say I am pro privacy. No one has a right to know or Maraya1969 Apr 2017 #12

It works for me...it was a privacy decision back in 1972. Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #14

We are a culture that likes our dichotomies Volstagg Apr 2017 #13