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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.women
Subject: I am pro-choice, dare you claim the same?
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Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 01:44:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 01:44:26 1984
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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One think that has always irked me is the constant misuse of the
phrase "pro-choice" pertaining to abortion.  I have seen many people
claim to be pro-choice on the abortion issue, and come out anti-choice
on other issues like pornography and public funding of abortion.  I
have often seen people who call themselves pro-choice feminists come out
in favour of the censorship of pornography!  This astounds me.

Abortion is something the anti-abortionist finds disgusting and morally
evil.  These days many feminists in the news say the same thing about
X-rated films.  Surely "It's my body and I can do what I want with it!"
implies "It's my mind and I can do what I want with it!"

Likewise on funding.  How can you claim to be pro-choice, and at the
same time insist that those anti-abortionists be forced on pain of prison
to pay for abortions!  Where's the advocacy of choice in that?

Now I'm all for individual choice on the abortion issue, and you can see
a small number of the reasons in my previous postings to net.abortion.
I also don't find anything wrong in us pro-abortionists banding together
to help pay for abortions for the poor if we want to.
But really folks, only use the term pro-choice if you really mean it.
Of course, the super-loaded "pro-life" isn't used very well either.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304