The Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad...

"Names and labels do matter. The pro-life community rejected the other side's claim to the pro-choice label years ago, recognizing that re-casting the moral issue underlying abortion as simply a woman's right to choose is sophistry. Pro-lifers, of course, also reject the anti-abortion label assigned to them by others.

As Princeton University Jurisprudence professor Robert George points out in this piece at Public Discourse, if we were to shift the topic from abortion to slavery, would our ancestors who advocated slavery have been labeled pro-choice on the matter of owning slaves? When our forebears promoted slavery as an acceptable (or distasteful-but-tolerable) social institution necessary to the well-being of the nation, with the proviso that if you think slavery is wrong then don't own any, would we have called them pro-choice? We would, as George says, most certainly have called such people simply pro-slavery, just as we label as pro-abortion those who euphemistically call themselves pro-choice."

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