Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site phs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!duke!phs!sam From: sam@phs.UUCP (Sherry Marts) Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.women Subject: Re: I am pro-choice, dare you claim the same? Message-ID: <929@phs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 13:02:41 EDT Article-I.D.: phs.929 Posted: Tue Sep 18 13:02:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 08:29:39 EDT References: <8988@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Duke Physiology Lines: 18 -------------- I am pro-choice on the abortion issue. I AM NOT PRO-ABORTION!!! The two words are NOT synonymous. I believe that ay decision concerning whtether or not to carry a pregnancy to term should be left up to the woman, in consultation with a health-care provider and anyone else with whom she might choose to discuss it. I would fight any effort to force a woman to abort a pregnancy as strongly as I'm now fighting efforts to limit a woman's right to a safe and affordably abortion on demand. Unlike Brad, I find the term "pro-choice" adequate to describe my position on the abortion issue. Any ambiguity of meaning is usually cleared up by the context in which it appears. In general contemporary usage, "pro-choice" specifically means "pro-choice on the abortion issue" - think of it as an abbreviation, if that will help, Brad. And if you really are pro-abortion, call yourself that. Most pro-choice folks aren't, any more than the -nti.abortion crowd is truly "pro-life".