I prefer anti-choice and pro-choice. It actually encapsulates the actual debate -- pro-choice people support a woman's choice to have an abortion (as well as other reproductive rights choices) and anti-choice people do not, so they are against that choice
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But it's true, isn't it? Rape is not comparable -- a rapist doesn't have to rape a woman; it's not an unintended consequence of anything that people do every day. Pregnancy is an unintended consequence of sex, and it's not my fault or my problem that a fetus can't live outside my body.This confuses me, because the natural purpose of sex is reproduction. You put the fertile male reproductive organ in the fertile female reproductive organ, and eventually nature will take its course. It's not the fetus's fault that we choose to make our own definitions of what sex is supposed to be about. Nor should we consider pregnancy an unintended consequence to performing a reproductive act
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I want to add something. The reason that anti-choice could be so easily misconstrued is because of certain religious views, like with Catholicism, ban not only the choice of abortion, but also the choice of birth control or the choice of sex for pleasure. While many people who are opposed to abortion are against these as well, I would hate for the term to imply the same thing. Pro-choice can easily encompass all reproductive choices, because that's its intent. I'm sure that there are some out there, but the number of people who support abortion as the only reproductive choice are very few. On the other hand, there are many significant factions within the "anti-choice" movement. Some support birth control, some do not. Some support birth control that does not cause miscarriages, but not all birth control. Some don't allow it at all. The word choice is no longer as clear and encompassing on this side of the coin.
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I hope that clarifies what I was trying to say.
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