Reply #38: I really didn't mean to use that term [View All]

I refuse to allow them to dictate the language of the debate. I will never use "Partial Birth Abortion" except in quotes to denote THEIR non-medical definition. I use the medically correct "Intact D&X" or "Intact Dilation and Extraction". No medical textbook or dictionary even has the term Partial Birth Abortion. It's used to play to emotions of simple-thinking folk.

I believe in Choice, period. I also believe in Life, which is why I support school lunch programs, free health care and education for all citizens, prenatal counceling for women, free or very low cost child care for working mothers, a living wage, and generous retirement benefits for everyone who works in this country.

That, to me, is pro-life, because I valuse ALL lives. That's why I'm in nursing school---to ensure that every person I come in contact with is treated with compassion and understanding and respect.

But they're not pro-life. They're not LIFE anything. They're pro-fetus, and even then only tentatively. THey don't believe in free health care (or even low-cost health care) for pregnant women. THey don't believe in health care for people in GENERAL. They don't believe in the social programs that will allow the poor and working poor to better themselves. They don't care about the FETUS unless it forwards their sick political agenda.

In fact, they don't care about the fetus at all. That's just an issue to side-track people. Again, it allows them to appeal to basal emotional values (Babies = good). They care about CONTROL. They're not PRO-LIFE. THey're not even ANTI-ABORTION. They're ANTI-FREEDOM. PRO CONTROL.

For people who are so morally superior and puritanical in their views, they certainly spend alot of time with their noses in the vaginas of the world, no?