When Pro-choice Does Not Mean Pro-choice

When Pro-choice Does Not Really Mean Pro-Choice

Any one that knows me, know I am against abortion. A lot of people that have supported abortion have done so on the basis of choice. They say things such as “abortions should be legal, but rare” and “one person can not push their morality on another.” There are problems with those two statements.

Those advocating pro-choice and say “abortions should be legal, but rare” are by their very actions ensuring that abortions are not rare. Every time an effort is made to curb abortions they start yelling and claiming someone is trying to take away their right to an abortion. Partial birth abortions are those where the baby is brought out feet first until the head is barely in the birth canal. The doctor then punctures a hole in the base of the skull and the baby’s brain is sucked out. Most people are against this type of abortion, but any attempt to stop partial birth abortions is met with protest. This ensures that some late term babies will be aborted, thus increasing the number of abortions. Groups that have tried to pass laws saying that a minor must get parental approval before an abortion have been met with opposition from the pro-choice crowd. When a group wanted a 24 hour waiting period and the mother to see an ultra-sound of the baby before an abortion, the pro-choice advocates got hysterical. Clearly “pro-choice” means pro-abortion in the minds of many pro-choice people and to decrease the number of abortions is unacceptable.

However, what recently got my attention was what happened February 27, 2009 . I saw the following headline, Official: Obama to Reverse Bush Abortion Regulation. Our government had allowed doctors and nurses that opposed abortion on moral conditions the right to refuse doing abortions. Now we are told our government is reviewing this rule. Most pro-choice people believe the current government will rule in their favor and in effect tell doctors they do not have a choice when it comes to performing abortions. Thus pro-choice does not really mean pro-choice. The choice is only pro- if one chooses to either have or perform abortions. I call this the pro-choice that does not allow choice position.

Morality is not a two way street. If something is morally good we should advocate it, if something is morally bad we should stand against it. Pro-abortion people are being consistent. They see nothing wrong with it and are doing all they can to increase the number of abortions. They are making federal funding available world wide for abortions; so much for not imposing one’s morality on anyone else. – Dennis Tucker

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