On a recent edition of MSNBC's "Hardball", Pat Buchanan described Barack Obama as "militantly pro-abortion".
This is ridiculous.
I don't know of anyone who is militantly pro-abortion. And I don't know of any person of conscience who would choose to have an abortion without any hesitation. But, sadly, the anti-choice crowd loves to exaggerate. They almost seem to believe that we'd like to impose forced abortions on everyone.
The truth is that pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion. It doesn't mean that we are anti-life. It simply means that we respect the right of every woman to make her own decisions regarding her reproductive system. It means that, even though we might find the idea of abortion unsettling, we will not impose our own belief system onto others.
It's about privacy, and it's about a woman's right to sovereignty over her own body.
It's nothing more, and nothing less.
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