Pro-Choice Vs. Pro-Abortion

When discussing abortion many people will respond with "I don't necessarily support abortion, I just support the women’s right to choose", as if supporting one does not support the other. I have mentioned on this blog before how the central question in abortion is whether the fetus is a person or not. You can not escape answering this and the "pro-choice" line is no exception. Let me clarify this with an example that touches on something less controversial.

Let’s say we’re back in Abraham Lincoln's time, mid 1800's, and instead of abortion, the issue is slavery. You had the famous Douglas vs. Lincoln debates. If throughout the debate Douglas said this (he did use the pro-choice argument, btw),

Douglas: I am not for slavery, I am just for giving the land owners the right to choose whether to own slaves or not. You should not enforce your beliefs on them. It should be their right to choose.

Would you call Douglas pro-slavery, or merely pro-choice? In all practical purposes he is acting like someone who has already made up his mind that slavery is not wrong. You can only support a choice for something you have no moral qualms about.

Throughout history, nearly all violations of human rights have been defended on the grounds of the right to choose. They all commit the same central error, they never take into account what that choice is. In the slavery debates, that choice was to own another human being, against his will. In abortion, we also need to see what the choice is by first determining if it is or isn't murder. If abortion is not murder, than by all means, everybody should have the right to do as they wish. But if abortion is murder, the choice should not be allowed. So the pro-choice crowd simply begs the question, and a priori assumes that abortion is not murder in making their argument. They are, in all practical purposes, pro-abortion.

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  1. hispanicpundit.com Hispanic Pundit » Obama’s Viability Abortion StanceSeptember 13, 2004 at 8:15 PM

    [...] the other is the “Choice Argument". I have already addressed the choice argument at length before, so I’d like to concentrate on the viability argument. I get most of this response [...]

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  2. hispanicpundit.com Hispanic Pundit » Obama’s Viability Abortion StanceSeptember 13, 2004 at 8:15 PM

    [...] the other is the “Choice Argument". I have already addressed the choice argument at length before, so I’d like to concentrate on the viability argument. I get most of this response [...]

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