aps said:
I would be surprised if anyone who considers themselves to be pro-choice as someone who supports abortion. We support a woman's right to choose to do what she wants with her own body should she get pregnant, as that is none of our business. That doesn't make us abortion supporters.
I know, it makes you pro-lifers feel morally superior to those who are not pro-life. Yawn.
Oh goodie!!! This is one of my favorite aspects of this debate and I am so glad you brought it up. And to steal all my thunder, you already hit the nail on the head. Its about a supposed moral superiority that the
pro oppression crowd has always had. The
pro-lie stance has always been guilty of revisionist tactics...and their deception runs deep. On some sites they claim abortion causes increases in breast cancer...and they made this maliciously deceitful claim to the point that the National Cancer Institute had to waste money that could have gone toward real research on publishing literature to counter the lie.
The
anti choice crowd also make wild claims that medical terminology concerning fetal development was instituted for the sole purpose of dehumanizing the supposed "unborn child". Point in fact, this is an outright lie disseminated by a movement that has no basis for its existence except a constant undermining of medical and scientific progress. Its only power is in the attempt to illegally control a woman's reproductive rights.
The
anti liberty also falsely propogates the LIE that the Vatican has made a definitive stance on abortion. This, while not being completely false, is a gross misrepresentation which I find personally offensive. The catholic church has been in a constant flip flop as to whether abortion is murder or not. For example:
(354-430); and Cyril of Alexandria (c. 444) held that "Abortion, if early, is not homicide." Delayed hominization or ensoulment was an accepted principle. St. Augustine stated:
"The great question about the soul is not hastily decided by unargued and rash judgment; the law does not provide that the act (abortion) pertains to homicide, for there cannot yet be said to be a live soul in a body that lacks sensation when it is not formed flesh, and so not yet endowed with sense." (On Exodus, 21.80) (CSEL 28.147).
Or perhaps:
Further, the following was stated as recently as 1974:
"Instruction On Respect For Human Life In Its Origin and On The Dignity of Procreation"
Vatican stated: ". . . the magisterium has not expressly commited itself to an affirmation of a philosophical nature concerning the presence of the spiritual soul and personhood;" and
In 1999, Church scholar Dr. Marjorie Reilly McGuire, PhD, Catholic Theologian
"the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on abortion has never been taught as an ex cathedra infallible teaching nor would it be—given the historical inconsistency of Church teaching on the subject."
So as you see...the
pro women's slavery camp is built on lies and spin; just as every emboldened appellation I gave them, their whole stance is built on nothing but spin.