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What pro-choice advocates learned from the pro-life movement – The Washington Post

Posted on February 23rd, 2012 at 16:20 by Desiato in category: Commentary -- Write a comment

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Now, on the Virginia legislation, abortion rights advocates are seeing similar success with messaging that shifts the debate away from concepts of choice and more towards privacy and intrusion.

“[Using the term] Choice has always been a terrible idea: The concept of choice is one from consumer products, from shopping,” says the University of California’s George Lakoff. “Whereas the concept of life is morality. You can’t fight morality with shopping. … to be fighting morality with morality, you need to be focused on a woman’s right to her own physical integrity.”

  1. The trouble is, these people don’t want anyone but the old silverback males to have any rights.
    Everyone knows what the debate is about. Although changing the wording and platform might change some of the discussion (it couldn’t get more nasty, surely), the actual argument is about Fundamentalism vs. Modernity.

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