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Yes. No.
Debate Score:82
Arguments:70
Total Votes:88
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Is prochoice proabortion?

Proabortion is wanting to keep abortion legal. Prochoice is the same, therefore prochoice is proabortion.

Yes.

Side Score: 35
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No.

Side Score: 47
3 points

Yeah, and?

Side: Yes.

No shit.

Side: Yes.
2 points

What else is new?

Side: Yes.

I respect your honesty. .

Side: Yes.

What's the point in being pro-choice if you are anti-abortion?

Side: Yes.
4 points

I vote pro-choice, but I don't do it because I desire abortions to be legal. It is because I don't think we have sufficient rationale to make it illegal.

I do it because I learned years ago how arbitrary and uncertain our definition of life and so-called "personhood" are. I've studied the subject a little, and found that there is no quick and easy way to qualify such things. As long as that is the case, I do not think the government has the recourse to remove the service from the economy.

I may not like abortion, but I do not feel the woman's choice in handling her own situation should be nullified by the government as long as so many talking points are led more by personal religion/upbringing than by demonstrated facts. I don't believe in making things illegal without very strong, fact-based reasoning.

Side: No.
SitaraMusica(536) Clarified
1 point

I used to be prochoice. I had no problem being called proabortion.

Side: Yes.
3 points

Both red and blue ar colors, therefore red is blue.

Side: No.
Akulakhan(2985) Disputed
3 points

Merriam-Webster is right; but perhaps nuance isn't your finest analytic quality.

Pro-abortionists "favor the legalization of abortion", and condone the act.

Pro-choicers simply "favor the legalization of abortion."

All pro-abortionists are pro-choice, as where not all pro-choice are pro-abortion. In fact, a fair portion of the pro-choice community is anti-abortion.

Side: No.
1 point

No. It's about maintaining the law that already exists. It's about maintaining a right not revoking a right.

Side: No.
1 point

Proabortion: Favoring the legaliziation of abortion. Prochoice: Favoring the legalization of abortion. Therefore, prochoice is proabortion.

Side: Yes.
AveSatanas(4443) Disputed Banned
1 point

Pro-choice: pro maintaining the ALREADY EXISTENT choice to keep a pregnancy or abort it. Pro-abortion: in favor of abortion OVER keeping the pregnancy. You are fucking retarded if you think that pro-abortion scare tactic defamation by pro-lifers is a) a legitimate term or b) comparable to the entire pro-choice side of the debate. Abortion is already legal, youre the ones who want to restrict peoples rights to their own bodies, not us. Youre the side telling women what they can and cant do, were leaving that choice up to them.

Side: No.

Not necessarily. In my case, I strongly dislike abortion, but consider it a necessary evil due to projected ramifactions on the large scale should abortion suddenly no longer become a legal option. Other reasons include the associated issues with outlawing abortion (such as the necessity of investigating "miscarriages" in the same manner that family members might be investigated in the event of an accidental death. Not making this up.)

If I'm proabortion, it's only because I'm anti-overloadingsocialprograms, anti-miscarriagewitchhunt, anti-overpopulation, anti-impoverishedchildrearing, and generally anti-legislation regarding anything as personal as this for philosophical reasons to boot.

Side: No.
SitaraMusica(536) Clarified
1 point

Fair enough. When I was prochoice, I had no problem being called proabortion.

Side: Yes.
Cartman(18192) Disputed
1 point

That isn't entirely accurate. At some point you did have a problem with it.

Side: Yes.
1 point

I don't think think wanting abortions to remain legal is the same as being "pro-abortion" which I suppose would involve something like actively promoting abortions as a socially acceptable form of birth control. One could be opposed to the idea of making abortions illegal, and still work to discourage unnecessary abortions through means other than making abortion illegal.

Side: No.
1 point
Side: Yes.
atypican(4875) Disputed
1 point

Thinking that they are synonymous supports the silly notion that the only way to oppose the abortion epidemic is by outlawing a sometimes necessary medical procedure.

Side: No.

Pro-Choice is equivalent to one who says, "I support the troops." If someone supports the troops, the person does not necessarily believe in killing.

Side: No.