(March 21, 2014 at 8:24 am)Deidre32 Wrote: I don't like the terms "pro life" or "pro choice" because pro choice implies that people callously make decisions based on their circumstances.
The terms are political in nature, and are chosen in order to put the opposing view on the defensive, by implying that they are either anti-life or anti-choice. The latter is the more accurate of the two, since anti-abortionists take an absolute stance with implied enforcement.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould