The Power of Words: terms for the abortion debate

[Rían]

While reading thru those 21 "Reasons", it made me think about the power of words, and the power held by those that choose the words we see in the media. For example, from the list:

4. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all humankind without regulation.

Yet those who are pro-life (and they're not ALL Republican, by any means) do not at ALL object to a woman making decisions about HER OWN body; what they object to is the decision that a woman is making about SOMEONE ELSE'S body - i.e., the person that is temporarily in her womb, through no choice of its own - the baby.

I like when articles use "pro-life" instead of "anti-abortion" because I think it's more fair. If abortion did NOT take a life (in the opinion of the pro-lifers), then the pro-lifers would not object. I think it's only fair to use "pro-life" if the other side will be represented by "pro-choice". IOW, be fair and take the POV from each group; NOT the POV of both groups from only one group's POV, if that makes sense.

For example - I think most pro-lifers think a more accurate label for those who are typically called "pro-choice" would be (and I'm trying to be considerate here) something like "those willing to take the life of unborn babies for various reasons that they think valid". Now the pro-choice people would obviously object to this. And the pro-life people also object to the labels that pro-choice people call them. So I think the fairest thing to do in these types of discussions is to allow the groups in question to choose what they prefer to be called, instead of allowing one side to choose BOTH labels.

I'm willing to let the pro-choicers use that term, because that's the important issue for them, altho I REALLY strongly disagree that that's the important point. IOW, to me, it's just as much a choice to kill an adult as it is a choice to kill a baby in the womb, yet the pro-choicers don't advocate choice when it comes to killing those outside of the womb. Yet I think that they should be allowed to be referred to as "pro-choice", just as I should be allowed to be referred to as "pro-life".

Thoughts, anyone? (this is a volatile subject; please keep it considerate! )