Pro-Choice Really Just Means Pro-Abortion

I can imagine that some people will start to chastise me for the title of this commentary before they even read what I write. It has become very apparent to me that many people don’t actually read what is written and consider the points I make; they just like to tell me how wrong I am. So before you react, let’s tackle the pro-abortion or pro-choice argument or “rhetoric”.

The rhetoric war has been won for the most part by what I call the pro-abortion movement. They have themselves adopted the term pro-choice because it sounds a lot nicer than pro-abortion. I have often wondered why they have not changed another term that they use to describe themselves, “abortion rights advocates.” If they are pro-choice and not pro-abortion then why not refer to themselves as “choice rights advocates”?

Let’s break down the words and examine what they mean. “Pro” obviously means you are in support of something. Pro-gun, pro-gay rights, pro-life, pro-union; these are all terms that describe something you support. Why is it then that the term pro-abortion is not used proudly?

The term “pro-choice” should really embody all of the “pro” stances on every issue; it shouldn’t just define one issue. But when someone refers to themselves as pro-choice, they are referring to only one thing: Abortion. So what they are saying is that they believe it is fine for someone to obtain an abortion, which makes them pro-abortion. If you believe people have the right to form and join unions even if you would never join one, you are pro-union. Would you be angry that someone referred to you as pro-union? Would you say, “I just believe in the choice to join a union, but I am not pro-union”? Of course not.

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The use of the word choice shows that it is all about the stigma of being called pro-abortion. But why is there a stigma if there is nothing wrong with abortion? Why would people be so opposed to being referred to as pro-abortion if abortion is perfectly acceptable?

To answer that we have to determine what abortion is. Is abortion simply the termination of a pregnancy? Is abortion just a medical procedure that removes an unwanted mass of cells from your body, like liposuction?

The answer to those questions is a resounding no. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, but what is a pregnancy? The Random House dictionary definition of pregnant reads: Having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal. The Cambridge Dictionary reads: Of a woman and some female animals having young developing inside the womb.

Abortion is the termination or killing of a developing human person in the early stages of their life. It is that simple. We can try and sanitize it with words or phrases but that does not change what it is.

There are a lot of things that are unpleasant that people or organizations try to make less appalling by changing the words used to describe them. As a parent, I am guilty of this myself. When my children were young, we called using the bathroom “going potty,” rather than using the actual words for what they were doing. It didn’t change the facts, just made them sound less gross.

That is why the pro-abortion movement wants to be referred to as pro-choice, not pro-abortion; pro-choice sounds less gross. Abortion carries a stigma with which they don’t want to be identified.

We should not give into the sanitization of abortion; it needs to be exposed for what it is. We should not allow rhetoric to define how we describe an evil like the killing of innocent human beings.

I have often heard people say they would love to see abortion reduced or minimized. Why? If there is nothing immoral or wrong about abortion then why would we care how many people had them? Why would we want to reduce something that is perfectly OK? If you want to reduce them then you must think there is something wrong with them; what is it that is wrong?

God commands us to “love our neighbor as ourselves” (Luke 10:27). When our neighbors are dying by the thousands every day in this nation, we have an obligation to stand up and fight for their lives. God calls us to “rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter ” (Proverbs 24:11). I will not cheapen our pre-born neighbor’s lives or sanitize the pro-abortion movement by using the term pro-choice. I will not sit quietly as my brothers and sisters are being slaughtered in abortion mills every day.

To say you are pro-choice but not pro-abortion is simply illogical.

Lifenews Note: Bryan Kemper is the youth outreach and street activism director for Priests for Life.

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