For years one side has been branded "Pro-Choice," those who think that the mother has the right to choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. The other side has been branded "Pro-Life," which ostensibly meant that they venerate human life above all else, and since most pregnancies will end up producing a living human being, consider abortion to be murder.
Problem is, the "Pro-Life" movement also tend to be the same people who support war and the death penalty. In liberal circles there have long been jokes about "Pro-Life" folks being upset about a medical procedure to dispose of some cells that couldn't win an arm-wrestling contest with a bit of amneotic fluid, yet venerating and supporting with a passion the act of electrocuting retarded people. So "Pro-Life" didn't seem to be the correct title for this bunch.
Which brings us to this article from our friends at the AP:
Anti-abortion leaders voiced concern Sunday that the Obama administration and other Democrats may try to capitalize on the murder of Dr. George Tiller to defuse the abortion issue in upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings."Anti-abortion." The phrase "Pro-Life" doesn't appear even once in the article, and the AP ain't exactly known for it's left-wing bias.
Many anti-abortion groups condemned the killing of Tiller, a prominent abortion provider who was shot dead at his church in Wichita, Kan. But they expressed concern that abortion-rights activists would use the occasion to brand the entire anti-abortion movement as extremist.
Honestly you could knock me over with a feather, but it seems like the mainstream media's finally caught on: These people are not pro-life. They're anti-abortion; they couldn't give a shit about living, breathing human beings.
It's nice when the press does its job. Well done, AP.
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