I always use anti-choice when describing people who prefer to outlaw abortion. "Pro-life" is a meaningless description, purposely chosen to be unassailable. Whose life? What about in situations where it's either/or? What kind of life? How are you pro it?
...I presume you're familiar with Lakoff's work on the whole framing thing, and wedge issues and the like.
(...when would abortion be for an *im*personal reason?)
Yup, and the pro-life/anti-choice folks have worked *really* hard to get people to use their language when describing the "sides" -- "pro-life" vs. "pro-abortion". It's part of the long term strategy and happens so much and so ubiquitously that while I can agree that it's not good journalism, it's also understandable given the nonstop efforts at making that the dominant vocabulary. Words shape the world, all that.
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...I presume you're familiar with Lakoff's work on the whole framing thing, and wedge issues and the like.
(...when would abortion be for an *im*personal reason?)
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