Summary

I’m Pro Choice. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all? We all like to make our own choices. Restaurants, entertainment, faith--or lack thereof--where we work and live, who we marry, or if we marry, political and economic philosophy, movies, what’s for dinner. Are we going to have children? These are all personal choices. Somehow, we have allowed the term pro choice to mean that someone saying it supports paid abortion on demand.

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Ratchet Effect

Charter Schools Make Public School Better

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I’m Pro Choice. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all? We all like to make our own choices. Restaurants, entertainment, faith--or lack thereof--where we work and live, who we marry, or if we marry, political and economic philosophy, movies, what’s for dinner. Are we going to have children? These are all personal choices. And aren’t we all pro choice? Somehow, we have allowed the term pro choice to mean that someone is saying they support paid abortion on demand.

How on earth did that happen?

Language is constantly changing, usually reflecting the changes in the culture speaking that language. In my youth, a pimp was a lowlife, living off of selling women who get paid by turning tricks, and keeping them in line with drugs and physical force. Labeling someone as a pimp was highly derogatory. Not so today. The TV show, Pimp My Ride, is about restoring and customizing cars. And don’t forget its imitator, Trick My Truck. That change in language took what was once seen, correctly, as unacceptable and wrong and made it okay by making light of it; this has happened with both pimping and tricking. It’s almost as if we are prostituting the language.

But back to being pro choice. Why is it that many of the same people who label themselves as pro choice when it comes to abortion, are not pro choice when it comes to schools? Or guns? Or… It seems that increasingly it is okay to be pro choice in any area as long as you are making the right choice to be pro about. And the same machinery that is defining political correctness is defining what the right choices are. Both the insistence on political correctness and the push to get everyone to make the same choices are part of a cohesive, well-funded effort to get all of us on the same page. The Founders defined that “same page” as us coming together to guarantee each other’s civil and economic liberties. The freedom to think and say what you feel is outlined in the founding documents, and has been earned and defended on various battlefields. Remember the quote, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” Now, it is more like, “I hate what you are saying, and if you say it again, I’ll kill you.”

Let’s take language back to what it should be, before the agenda-driven changes. In the abortion discussion, the language should be pro abortion, or anti abortion, not pro choice and pro life. Both of the pro titles imply that their side is correct. After all, who could be against choice? The phrase pro choice implies that the living tissue inside the mother is not human; if it was recognized as human, there would be no room for choice. And pro life assumes that the tissue is already human, else the word life would be entirely misplaced. So let’s avoid using titles for a discussion that are deliberately chosen to clearly imply that the question has already been settled. BTW, do you remember when the pro abortion mantra was that abortion should be safe, legal and rare? Now the same people are pushing to make it free and on demand.