I don't mind at all! Your opinion is really valuable to me. :)
I do understand your problems with the term "pro-life" (I know for a fact it has actually been developed specifically to invoke that dichotomy); my problem is that there doesn't seem to be another word to really describe the "good parts" of such a stance. Perhaps I could better describe myself as "pro-choosing-life," or "pro-improving-society-to-the-point-that-ideally-no-one-should-have-to-make-such-a-difficult-choice-without-support." The problem, again, with being pro-life even while supporting pro-choice legislature is that there are so many semantic problems that the loaded word "pro-life" engenders. But I don't know how to fix that. :/
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winterfish
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Date: 2010-02-28 05:18 pm (UTC)I do understand your problems with the term "pro-life" (I know for a fact it has actually been developed specifically to invoke that dichotomy); my problem is that there doesn't seem to be another word to really describe the "good parts" of such a stance. Perhaps I could better describe myself as "pro-choosing-life," or "pro-improving-society-to-the-point-that-ideally-no-one-should-have-to-make-such-a-difficult-choice-without-support." The problem, again, with being pro-life even while supporting pro-choice legislature is that there are so many semantic problems that the loaded word "pro-life" engenders. But I don't know how to fix that. :/