POLL: What to name a new tag for anti-abortion quotes

POLL: What to name a new tag for anti-abortion quotes blog

We don’t just want to call it pro-life, because that’s a low-information, politically-positive name.

I’m going to close this poll on October 31.

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What to name a new tag for anti-abortion quotes

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I like #forced-birth. It’s fairly short and to the point.

Thanks for doing this!

I personally think #sexist is sufficient for the most part, but if I had to choose, I’d say #forced-birth.

I'm going to go with forced birth.

Btw. How to tag climate change denial? Jordan Petersons Twitter timeline is full of it

@Taln_Reich #174577

#conspiracy

Since defenders of climate change denialism need a conspiracy theory to explain why the ELITEZ!!1! and the eVuL ScIeNtIsTs are claiming climate change is real.

Those are my five shiny coins…

I'm not sure how that buttons system works or if perhaps it's broken with my settings, but since a few commented I may as well just post my impression. "Anti-abortion" seems to be the most commonly used description and remains accurate. "Pro-life" is recognized to be a misleading slogan, mostly used by anti-abortion activists who need to twist it in a way to sound ethical while distracting from a number of facts that can be listed, demonstrating hypocrisy. "Anti-choice" would also be accurate, because the goal is to not allow the choice to be legal, but it's less familiar and without more context is less informative: in a paper about birth control in general, it would be unclear if "anti-choice" would also mean anti-birth-control in general. Natalism is probably similar to the latter in being vague, because natalists promote a number of methods hoping for a population explosion. Tyranny and repression just appear a little "pushed" to me. "Forced-birth" shares a few issues with "tyranny" and "anti-choice". So I tend to prefer "anti-abortion" for its common usage and accuracy...

Personally, I’d rather a tag that includes anti-Pill stuff. It’s not a deal breaker if it doesn’t, but anti-Pill and anti-abortion go together very often.

#forcedbirth is probably the best of these, because of the forced part. But I usually use the Handmaid quote, blessed be the fruit!

@pyro #175111

Btw. why will this be open until October 31? That's an awfully long wait for something where probably all the votes that will be cast will have arrived long before then.

How about “culture of life” ironically?

@Vgal #175260

Mostly because there’s no reason not to; we’ve not had an anti-abortion tag for a long time, so a couple months isn’t going to make much difference. I wanted to let people discuss their choices and change their mind, and I want to include people who only visit once in a while. The main limit was that there might be an anti-abortion quote of the year, so this poll has to close before FOTY nominations if we want to use that tag name for the poll.

#forced-birth, #anti-choice, and #anti-abortion are my votes, in that order. Not fond of the rest.

Forced-Birth. It’s to the point and doesn’t sugar-coat.

it just occurred to me that #anti-choice could also cover the crazies of the antinatalist community. They don’t want anybody to reproduce, which is just as anti-choice as forced birthers.

Of course, those nutjobs are in like one community on Reddit. Not nearly as widespread as forced birthism.

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#anti-abortion
average score: 2.83* out of 12 votes*
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#anti-choice
average score: 3.19* out of 16 votes*
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#forced-birth
average score: 4.71* out of 24 votes*
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#reproductive-tyranny
average score: 3.29* out of 14 votes*
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