Some in Malta are hiding behind the argument that they are pro-choice and not pro abortion. It is a game with words that has been played time and time again in countries that once had pro-life laws like Malta.
What is someone claiming when the say they are pro-choice and not pro-abortion? They are saying that they are pro-choice for abortion. Many pro-abortion minded people are more comfortable hiding their beliefs in veiled language. They insist on being defined as persons who are pro-choice. After all, who would dare to be anti choice in a modern pluralistic society?
Note however how they tactfully avoid talking about the consequence of the choice they proclaim. To be pro-choice means to be pro-abortion as a choice. The term “pro-choice” is actually contradictory.
If pro-choice persons really stood by what they declare, that is, the right to choose, then they should be the first to defend the unborn child who is robbed of their choice to live by the act of abortion.
The language can be bewildering. In fact it is designed to water down the hard truth of abortion. It aims to repackage abortion making it seem more socially agreeable. At times pro-abortion language may even resemble an entirely different language. For the benefit of the reader, I offer an interpretation of some more common pro-abortion language.
“I am personally against abortion but pro-choice”. Translation: I would never kill my own baby in the womb, but I think women should have the choice to kill their unborn child. “The state should not interfere with a woman’s choice”. Translation: the state should legalise abortion. “A foetus is just a bunch of cells. It is just a foetus not a baby”. Translation: If people believe the lie that we are talking about a cluster of cells, they are more likely to accept abortion. Fact: the term foetus means little child in Latin, a foetus is a perfectly formed human life who’s organs need to grow and mature. “Pro-life people are against the freedom of choice”. Interpretation: I can’t win my argument for abortion, so I have to make pro-life people seem to be against choice. This is an easier argument to win support on. “Pro-life people are fundamentalists”. Intention: everyone suspect’s fundamentalist’s so I will do my best to associate pro-life people with those fanatics who blow themselves up on TV.
“Men have no right to interfere in a woman’s choice to give birth”. This is like saying that in the past; only plantation owners had a right to an opinion about slavery. It also implies that only female babies are ever aborted. “Pro-life is a religious issue”. Pro-abortion people use this argument because they know that they cannot deny the scientific fact that life begins at conception. They believe that if they can make some people believe that the cause is just part of a religious movement they can avoid discussing the science. “Pro-life is a personal belief and you should not impose your values on others”. Answer, abortion is personal for the baby, one should not impose their own personal beliefs on the unborn child either. Abortion is also very personal for the woman suffering after having been through an abortion. “Pro-life ideas are from the middle-ages” Translation: to be modern and progressive, we must be allowed the choice to kill unborn babies.
Pro-choice for abortion people are unique in that they are the only known group of activists who support a position that they may even personally claim to disagree with. They regard choice as the ultimate freedom. In the process they work to rob the unborn child of the choice live.
90% of babies that are killed by abortion worldwide are between 7 and 10 weeks gestation. They are killed by abortion mainly because of social reasons, in other words, they are not convenient. The unseen tragedy is what lies in the aftermath of abortion; abortion brings years of silent suffering and anguish for the post abortive woman.
There is nothing progressive about killing babies in the womb. Like slavery and the extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany, abortion is only possible once the unborn child loses its legal status as a person. The only way to achieve this would be to legally challenge the concept of the right to life starting from conception. This is why a constitutional clarification of when the right to life begins remains so very important.
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