There's a new campaign by one of my least favourite lobby groups (Family First in case you were wondering), which is encouraging people to wear special pink and blue ribbons to say "Choose Life," by which they mean don't have abortions.
The use of the word "choose" implies that Family First is asking people to make a choice. But in fact what they actually want to do is take away the very choice they are supposedly promoting.
Confused?
Me too.
It's like this.
Family First are anti-abortion. The code they most commonly use for this is something along the lines of supporting the rights of the unborn child, but no make no bones about it, they are opposed to abortion.
Family First are asking people to wear dinky ribbons in boringly gender-referenced colours (never mind that some people aren't girls or boys, or that pink ribbons are already very widely associated with breast cancer support). Everybody say "awwwwww", cute widdle ribbons in baby colours!
Family First's ribbons are worn as a symbol that you want people to not have abortions.
Family First want to remove the current (flawed, fettered, and not autonomous) right to choose an abortion.
Family First want to take away any ability to "choose life" and instead are keen to force people to continue pregnancies when they don't want to.
In effect what they want to do is force you to choose life. Not much of a choice is it?
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