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In reply to the discussion: Please stop using the term 'pro life'. [View all]ShazzieB
(16,370 posts)I never, ever call them that, and if I ever did, it was long before I was active at DU, so long ago that I can't ever remember. I usually call them forced birthers, but I'm also okay with calling their stance anti-choice or anti'abortion.
The main thing is NOT to call them by the label they invented for themselves. The ONLY reason they call themselves "pro life" is to imply that everybody else is "pro death. That is a deliberate insult to anyone who doesn't share their beliefs, and it's rude and disrespectful as well as wildly inaccurate.
Any time we use that term, we are pandering to them AND appearing to give lip service to their claim that they are the only ones who care about "life." They do NOT deserve that, and we should NEVER give it to them.