**** Something noteworthy came up today in a side discussions I had with other Obama supporters on the issue of abortion.
Why not turn the debate from a woman's choice or to protect a fertilized egg, but of respecting a person from birth to death? That's WHOLE-LIFE.
The Democratic Party platform is more than pro-choice. Besides support for the woman to make a decision for her health, we also provide resources to help the mother and newborn to make it through childhood with early start, and education support, as well as supporting job-training, and social security. We're concerned with protecting people from false accusations, false imprisonment, and for those incarcerated, to give them a chance to integrate back into society.
So...just want to put it out for all of you to consider. Why not let our rallying cry be "WHOLE-LIFE"?
There's another reason for this shift in language. The term "pro-choice" is too abstract, and doesn't resonate with the heart or gut feeling. Pro-life, on the other hand resonates with people's cores, especially Christians. We can co-opt that kind of affectation, because "whole-life" speaks with the same depth of respect for life, but goes further to respect not just a fertilized egg, but the mother and newborn, until old-age.