“Reproductive health” is one of those Orwellian neologisms that makes pro-life moderates not trust pro-choicers, because we know you’re mostly just using it as a way to make abortion seem less bad by surrounding it with necessary services, and it’s hard to describe that procedure as “healthy” when one person ends up dead from it.
Sorry, but this is one of those hard truths the pro-choice movement is going to have to learn if it ever wants to win back national abortion rights. But they’re too busy icing their burns from when “pro-decision” fell flat on its fucking face, so it’s not exactly like I trust them to figure this one out.
As someone who could be fairly reasonably described both as being pro-life and as being pro-choice, calling abortion as a whole "reproductive health" definitely bothers me.
I’m going to have to call bullshit here my friend. The way I perceive Reproductive health is a wide ranging term for a variety of procedures and medicines. We are talking birth control of all types, both male and female, anything to do with a persons ability to get pregnant or to get someone else pregnant. Calling abortion reproductive health care is placing it within a section of our health care system that it is connected to. Abortion doesn’t just happen in a vacuum of medical care, planned parenthood offers all sorts of reproductive health care options. Yes, “reproductive health” may seem like a way to church up “abortion” but it’s really more about placing abortion where it belongs, within a regular system of health care.
As someone who could be fairly reasonably described both as being pro-life and as being pro-choice, calling abortion as a whole "reproductive health" definitely bothers me.
I’m going to have to call bullshit here my friend. The way I perceive Reproductive health is a wide ranging term for a variety of procedures and medicines. We are talking birth control of all types, both male and female, anything to do with a persons ability to get pregnant or to get someone else pregnant. Calling abortion reproductive health care is placing it within a section of our health care system that it is connected to. Abortion doesn’t just happen in a vacuum of medical care, planned parenthood offers all sorts of reproductive health care options. Yes, “reproductive health” may seem like a way to church up “abortion” but it’s really more about placing abortion where it belongs, within a regular system of health care.