Why I (kind of) dislike the phrase "pro-choice": on libertarian framing

[SheilaT]

8. Yup.

If any man these days were to have the stupidity to start telling me women shouldn't be in charge of their own reproduction, I'd ask, as politely as I could manage, if he'd ever been pregnant. And go from there

Some years ago a young fundamentalist jerk that I know -- he was maybe 14 or 15 at the time -- started in on me once too often about his views on the topic. I said to him, "Caleb, if you don't believe in abortion then don't have one." It actually silenced him completely for about a minute, after which he said that I'd given him something to think about. Not sure where he stands these days other than I know he's still a right-wing fundamentalist conservative, but he knows better than to bring certain topics up in my presences.