Re: Focus on Family asks abortion-rights advocates to help make abortion less common

"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Karl wrote:

> > Planned Parenthood doesn't "like" abortions, they just "like" babies 
> > less. :\
>
> Uh…how is that better?

Well, in theory at least, it is arguably better to be "pro-choice" than 
"pro-abortion".  You can support a person's right to make a decision that 
you would never make yourself, etc., etc.

So the hamburger analogy falls down here, because burger joints have an 
active interest in selling more and more burgers, whereas pro-choice 
groups have no interest in causing more and more abortions; their only 
interest is in allowing people to buy burgers if they want to, but they'd 
be just as happy if people bought salads instead.  It's the whole "safe, 
legal and rare" thing that Bill Clinton espoused; though maybe "rare" 
isn't the best word to use when discussing burger analogies.

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