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Pro-choice and pro-life are terms of self-identification used by the two sides of the abortion debate: those who support access to abortion, and those who seek to restrict it, respectively. They are generally considered loaded language , since they frame the corresponding position in terms of inherently positive qualities (and thus position ...
Many of the terms used in the debate are seen as political framing: terms used to validate one's stance while invalidating the opposition's. [13] For example, the labels "pro-choice" and "pro-life" imply widely held values such as liberty or the right to life, while suggesting that the opposition must be "anti-choice" or "anti-life". [14]
Walter Block, Rothbardian writer and professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans, provides an alternative to the standard choice between "pro-life" and "pro-choice" which he terms "evictionism". According to this moral theory, the act of abortion must be conceptually separated into the acts of (a) eviction of the fetus from the womb ...
Trump, though, maintained support for leaving the question to individual states, and his positioning became the banner disagreement between Trump and groups like SBA Pro-Life and Students for Life.
Just six days after the words 'my body, my choice' echoed through the Washington Mall, a decidedly different march came to town. Pro-life then, pro-choice now: Catholic school kids reflect on ...
In a 2009 Gallup Poll, a majority of U.S. adults (51%) called themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion—for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995—while 42% identified themselves as "pro-choice", [80] although pro-choice groups noted that acceptance of the "pro-life" label did not in all cases indicate opposition ...
The story has been largely the same when it comes to the nearly 100 acts of violence and vandalism against pro-life pregnancy resource centers since the draft Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ...
For example, the labels pro-choice and pro-life imply endorsement of widely held values such as liberty and freedom, while suggesting that the opposition must be "anti-choice" or "anti-life". [1] These views do not always fall along a binary; in one Public Religion Research Institute poll, they noted that the vagueness of the terms led to seven ...