Talk:Pro-life

Hmm - while I confess that I don't know the exact origins of the terms I'm not persuaded that the primary motivation of coining either term was to position the opposition in the negative (though I suspect that was a secondary benefit). I suspect the primary motive was to coin a term that was a positive self-description that would be embraced by respective supporters but also be appealing to the unaligned. (I suspect that before "pro-life" and "pro-choice" become commonly accepted the use of "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion" were more commonly used -- though I'm not sure whether they started out as self-descriptors or media allocated tags) -- bob