Re: Owning Up to Abortion

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Pro-Choice movement made a fundamental mistake from the beginning --
by calling themselves pro-choice instead of pro-abortion. You can't win
major political and cultural battles by being shame-faced, which is what
the pro-choice label is.

Some on this list will remember the late Lisa Rogers, whose political
slogan on this issue was (if I remember correctly, in all-caps):

IN A JAR, DADDIO, IN A JAR.

Abortion is merely a method birth control, not a moral issue. When the
pro-choice movement gets pushed to the wall and elements of it decide to
fight back, their fundamental assumptions will be (a) abortion is a
technical matter, not a moral choice and (b) the way to achieve abortion
rights is to create so much social disruption that the only way to
settle things down will be to make the "pro-life" movement an object of
universal contempt.

Carrol