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Many of the terms used in the debate are seen as political framing: terms used to validate one's stance while invalidating the opposition's. [13] For example, the labels "pro-choice" and "pro-life" imply widely held values such as liberty or the right to life, while suggesting that the opposition must be "anti-choice" or "anti-life". [14]
The term pro-choice entered currency after pro-life and was coined by those who supported legal abortion as a response to the success of the pro-life branding. [1] [4] The first use of the term cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is in a 1969 issue of the California daily newspaper the Oxnard Press-Courier, which referred to "Pro-choice and ...
Contemporary philosophical literature contains two kinds of arguments concerning the morality of abortion. One family of arguments relates to the moral status of the embryo—whether or not the embryo has a right to life, in other words whether the embryo is a person in a moral sense. An affirmative answer would support the (1) claim in the ...
But a competing measure—Initiative 434—passed 55.3 percent to 44.7 percent and, while not as supportive of legal abortion as 439, it's also something of a pro-choice bill.
Abortion rights and anti-abortion rights activists are protesting in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 24, 2024. This demonstration marks the second anniversary of the court ...
Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...
The Supreme Courtoverturned Roe v.Wade on June 24, officially ending federal protections for abortion in the United States.Social media quickly erupted, and a video of journalist Ana Kasparian's ...
In a 2009 Gallup Poll, a majority of U.S. adults (51%) called themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion—for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995—while 42% identified themselves as "pro-choice", [80] although pro-choice groups noted that acceptance of the "pro-life" label did not in all cases indicate opposition ...