Re: Everyone is pro-life ... duh
by
Colage
05/20/2009, 7:28 PM #
Yes, (almost) everyone is pro-life, and (almost) everyone is pro-choice, but that's part of the reason those terms are employed. If you're not pro-(choice/life) then you're obviously anti-(choice/life)! Nobody wants to be against (choice/life)!
Now, that said, I think that you may be looking at anti-abortion philosophy in the wrong way. The prevailing thought (** note to message board commentariat: not my personal philosophy), as I see it, is that if life begins at conception, then abortion and murder are functionally identical. Therefore, aborting an embryo or fetus that is the result of incest is just as bad as taking the life of a three-year-old who was the product of incest.
So, I tend to think that the qualifiers are unnessecary, and cumbersome in any case. Just as when describing a political philosophy, people will usually give one or two axes (ie, Democrat or social liberal/fiscal conservative), which usually adequately describes what they think without getting into minutae about the New Deal or just war theory, even if that would be a better description of their philosophy. I think saying that you're for or against abortion rights or abortion-on-demand is adequate to give a clear enough picture.