BellaOnline Forums News and Politics Pro-Choice What does "pro-choice" mean to you?

It just means a woman has the right to choose pro-life or pro-choice.

Am I wrong that is what pro-choice is?

A woman's right to choose one or the other?

I think I have been naiive about what the meaning of pro-choice is. Or that it has somehow changed over the years...

HorseCrazy-Your definition coincides with mine. Being pro-choice means that you support a woman's right to choose for herself whether or not to become pregnant (meaning, you support the right to choose to use birth control) or if a woman is pregnant already, whether or not to carry the fetus to term.

Yes, but it starts before then...She can choose whether to indulge in safe sex or not... She can choose whether to take preventative measures, or make sure the man is doing so...
Leaving aside the more sinister and "violent" ramifications of this comment, in this instance, assuming this is under normal circumstances, nobody is obliging her to make love or have sex at that moment.....

yes, but focusing on the term. all i ever meant with "pro-choice", was a woman's right to choose.

it's jumping way ahead to assume that means anything but right to choose. many choose life

i was curious what others thought the term meant

Yes, I think it means the right to choose on a variety of levels - but primarily to me, it means the right to decide upon her own reproductive behaviour.

I find it ludicrous to look upon this aspect of a woman's Life and question her right to choose... The Constitution is entirely based on giving the citizens of America the right to choose... in every sphere of their lives...

So a woman, as a free citizen, has a right to defend herself, she has a right to bear arms and has a right to plead the fifth amendment....Your constitution says so....To make an exception here seems bizarre, blinkered and prejudicial...

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I don't believe being pro-choice is about being pro-abortion. I believe it's about supporting every woman's right to own and control her body.

I'll drink to that......

Spot on

It's supporting the "choice" of one person (the mother) and ignoring the choice of the other involved parties: the father and the unborn offspring. Some choice.