Reply #182: "think about how easy it is to say you're for the unborn"

[outinforce]

With all due respect, okieinpain, might I suggest to you that it is my no means "easy" to say that you are for the unborn.

If you happen to be a male, and say that you are for the unborn, there is an awfully good chance that you will be labled -- by some folks, anyway -- as being a misogynist, anti-choice zealot with a severe case of "uterus envy". Or you will be labed a "fetus-lover", in much the same way as those who supported rights for Black folks back in the 50's and 60's were sometimes called "n****r-lovers". There is no end to the names that you can be called, and the villification you will have heaped upon you, if you express that you are "for" the unborn.

And you don't even have to say that you are "for" the unborn in order to have this happen. All you really need to do is to suggest that there is something called an "unborn child", and the invectives will begin to flow your way. Ask a question that causes some who label themselves "pro-choice" to question the dogma that they have heard from NOW and NARAL, and you, too, can be labeled an anti-woman anti-choice, knuckle-dragging pig.

Not all the time, of course. Some folks are able to have an invective-free discussion of this issue. But, especially within certain circles of our party, even hinting that you are "for" the unborn is by no means "easy".