“Pro-choice” is only pro one choice
By Brian Kirwin | Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 | ColumnsIn my latest column in the Daily Press, I take on the pro-choice crowd that only supports one choice – abortion.
They started noticing that no one was as excited about abortions as they were. A past NARAL president spoke of one of the anniversaries of Roe v. Wade “a time of great celebration.”
Party City is not yet carrying the NARAL Abortion Party theme.
I only hear from these folks about abortion.
But it is the intensity of NARAL’s venom that tips its hand about how pro-choice they really aren’t. Real pro-choice would mean equally strong support for all choices, not just a fevered focus on only one choice.
I searched for “adoption” on the NARAL website, and it brought me to page on emergency contraception.
NARAL is as interested in choice as the old Soviet Union elections.
I offered a new slogan for them: “Defending Dependent Disposibility”
A slogan for us? “Every pro-choicer had a pro-life Mom!”
Read the whole column here.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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5 Responses to "“Pro-choice” is only pro one choice"
Personally, I trust women to make their own choices about their own bodies without government or religious interference. What happened to small government?
I am going to offer this to the debate about how extreme the Pro-life side is.
My father was pro-life and extremely active in the pro-life movement. I guess I should be grateful. I was number ten of eleven kids.
Pro-life purists oppose the use of contraception. Count my Dad as being within that group. They argue life begins at conception. However they are also against the use of condoms that would, by their use, prevent conception.
My Daddy was a pro-life purist and he practiced what he preached. He ended up with eleven kids to support on a very limited income. My Daddy was the hardest working man I have ever met in my lifetime. Sun up to sun down and beyond, he labored to provide for his family.
Now, my question is this. How many pro-life purists that even oppose the use of contraception have eleven kids filing in behind them into the church pew on Sunday? While not all of them are hypocrites, from what I have seen, most of them are. They’re either not practicing what they preach or they have a very stilted sex life.
For the record: I am pro-choice. Pro-limited choice if it matters, but still pro-choice.
Brian once again trivializes the right of a couple to make their own choice about reproduction. To have the Governor or the President or our Congressmen intervening in a family and/or personal matter is disturbing at best. To engage in making up a slogan instead of providing the respect to individual rights is typical of the lunatic fringe. Frankly, McDonnell once again has shown that when the chips are down, he is out to impose his religious beliefs on all of us, in line with Falwell, Robertson, and a host of other evangelical businessmen. Can you please send another dollar to help?
Or it could be that NARAL is only mentioning one choice because that’s the one that’s under attack? I don’t think there any folks protesting outside maternity units trying to convince women that they shouldn’t bear children. Haven’t heard of any outside adoption agencies either.
“A slogan for us? “Every pro-choicer had a pro-life Mom!””
Really? So all women who are pro-choice are childless? Seems unlikely.
Old Dominion Watchdog took a look at how the abortion battle has played out in Virginia and other states, while pro-life efforts have been stiff-armed at the federal level. The center of the culture war seems to rest in the states.
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