The question is bad on its face because it accepts the branding phrases of each side. "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" are message points (like "affirmative action" and "freedom fighters") chosen for marketing purposes and, often, to obscure the details of the underlying position. There's a surprisingly high number of non-politically-oriented people out there that hear these phrases and don't even realize what they're about. (I, for one, avoid calling myself "pro-choice," because I think it's a wimp-out. I'm pro-abortion.) In a matchup like this, "choice" is at a semantic disadvantage, because what do most people consider the higher good: "choice" or "life"? And there are better, more accurate questions that have been used over time to assess attitudes toward abortion. Shame on Gallup for passing this off as research.
@souldecirce: Yes, that's very on point - although from a research (as opposed to ideological) perspective, the word "rights" is a little loaded; the anti side wouldn't consider them to be "rights."
I hate life in all forms, from unborn babies, to bacteria. Which is why I have spent the past 12 years putting in place a plan to end all life on Earth. Nothing will be spared. Not even amino acids.
Failing that, I have sabotaged the Large Hadron Collider so that when it is activated, it will create a black hole powerful enough to rend space-time asunder.
I hope this answers the Gallup Poll question sufficiently. Death to the world!
@OMG! Ponies!: Sabotaged the LHC so it creates a space-time destructive black hole? I thought that was its purpose. Or in your meddling have you unwittingly now just set it up so that all it does is play a nice game of chess?
Jezebel had a post on this the other day. It seems like the poll was flawed because the question regarding pro-life could be a personal one and have nothing to do with whether the government should outlaw access to abortion for all women everywhere.
Also, it's really quite offensive because what they're saying is that in most instances, a white woman pregnant by a black foreigner in the sixties would have just aborted and moved on. So yeah that's really classy to remind someone of how they should have been aborted.
This child will grow up in a stable home with an authoritarian father and a distant mother. He will be conscripted into war where he will be gassed by the enemy, causing him a lifetime of gastro-intestinal misery. He will fail as a painter but succeed as an author, popularizing a peculiar mustache style along the way. He will found a political party and be a famous anti-smoker, vegetarian and leader of his country.
@Mediahohoho: He will massacre gays and Jews. Whether that was good or bad is still up for debate. Mel Gibson, unofficial spokesman, is out of the office at the moment and can't be reached for comment.
@Wrapitup: Also, gay Jews. (Apparently there were variants of the yellow star to designate gay Jews, communist Jews, and even Jehovah's Witness Jews - there's a photo of one of the official charts somewhere).
However, when Stephen Fry aborted him it didn't work out so well; see [en.wikipedia.org])
@Wrapitup: If you ask my ex-father-in-law (same hometown) that bit is still up for debate and, even if true, totally counter-balanced by full employment and the invention of the Autobahn.
@Robert Synnott: See also: Gypsies, Slavs and political dissidents. I think what we can all agree on here is that he gave birth to the state of Israel, which makes him a hero for God botherers everywhere (see: Hagee, John).
I hate this ad and I have minimal tolerance for the people who put it out. If you are really Pro Life and not anti choice, pro fetus or anti woman than you would be pushing for increases in healthcare funding, social services assistance and maternity leave. Oh and a little REAL sex education and family planning would probably help too.
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Sorry, men don't count in this, and, unless you're willing to concede your entire life to this child, don't give me any grief.
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I hate life in all forms, from unborn babies, to bacteria. Which is why I have spent the past 12 years putting in place a plan to end all life on Earth. Nothing will be spared. Not even amino acids.
Failing that, I have sabotaged the Large Hadron Collider so that when it is activated, it will create a black hole powerful enough to rend space-time asunder.
I hope this answers the Gallup Poll question sufficiently. Death to the world!
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I call shenanigans also.
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someone to agree with almost anything if you pose questions in a certain way.
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So, yes, I'm totally Pro-Fellatio. Where's my lobby?
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Fucking
Sometimes it shouldn't be for procreation
Fixed.
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However, when Stephen Fry aborted him it didn't work out so well; see [en.wikipedia.org])
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Seriously. I think some pro-lifers just want to know who the sluts are.