This is why I have an issue with the label of pro-abortion, as much as I have an issue with the label of pro-choice, oddly. I prefer to think of it as pro-privacy. It's not an issue of what choice I WOULD make, or that I even see there as being a choice -- after all, having made up my mind where I stand, this determines whether or not I take path A or path B upon discovering a pregnancy -- it's that it's MY BUSINESS and no one else's.
So I prefer to tell people that I'm pro-privacy, and I want the government (and my neighbors) out of all things that are private: what I do with my body, my lovers, and my spirituality. Yes, I have a choice, but it's a great deal easier to do the whole "live and let live" thing when you start from the position of labeling it a person's private matter.
Granted, these are semantics, but that's not to discount the fact that language is a powerful tool. After all, saying I am pro-privacy covers a hell of a lot of other things, too: I think the government has no business reading my email or my mail or listening in on my phone conversations -- anymore than I think it has the least bit of business trying to mandate according to one religion.
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Date: 4 Aug 2005 11:52 pm (UTC)So I prefer to tell people that I'm pro-privacy, and I want the government (and my neighbors) out of all things that are private: what I do with my body, my lovers, and my spirituality. Yes, I have a choice, but it's a great deal easier to do the whole "live and let live" thing when you start from the position of labeling it a person's private matter.
Granted, these are semantics, but that's not to discount the fact that language is a powerful tool. After all, saying I am pro-privacy covers a hell of a lot of other things, too: I think the government has no business reading my email or my mail or listening in on my phone conversations -- anymore than I think it has the least bit of business trying to mandate according to one religion.