Pro-life or ?

I would venture to say that many if not most of you would say that the opposite of pro-life is pro-choice.  But in a strictly logical or maybe grammatical sense, what is the opposite of life?  Is it not death?  I have found myself, and a few other friends or acquaintances of mine, using the term pro-death to label those on the other side of the debate.  Admittedly, I could be using that term to take a small jab at those that take that stance (*whispers* you are for murder - the murder of tiny babies) In a culture that seems to be so supportive of abortion, maybe the jab is a much needed wake up call to remind those, who have emotionally removed themselves from the issue, that the "freedom" to choose that they are so relentlessly fighting for, is really a license to kill.

 I have noticed in my life, that I have not really come across anyone who is truly pro-choice - as the name would suggest.  I would think that anyone for choice is advocating all to choose anything that they deem right.  So, wouldn't they view the pro-lifers as merely exercising their freedom of choice and choosing that stance and that is just as good as any other?  Those who are "pro-choice," however, do not seem to think like this.  They seem to want to open more abortion clinics, expand the window of opportunity to do an abortion within the weeks of pregnancy and limit the amount of counseling, ultrasounds and information that would convince a pregnant woman to not abort her child.  How can you even use the word "choice" to describe your position on the matter, if you oppose woman having all the necessary information needed to make an informed choice?

 I use to pray outside an abortion clinic when I was in college, and one of the things that sticks out in my memory from those days, was how the abortion clinic "escorts" would all but push the woman and girls into the building before one of the pro-life students could utter a single word to them or hand them a brochure detailing real risks of abortion and real alternative options. It really seemed, to me, that they had a quota to fill for that day.  They had to abort x number of babies and they were going to accomplish their goal before they broke for lunch.  I remember one time, that a pro-life student did manage to hand a woman a brochure just before she entered the clinic.  The woman standing guard at the door of the clinic tore it out of the young woman's hands and ripped it up before she even had a chance to glance at it.  (As infuriating, sickening and depressing standing outside of a filthy abortion clinic in a bad neighborhood is, I really encourage anyone who had never tried praying there once to do so.  It really is, at the same time, a moving, enlightening and humbling experience.)    

Also, the "pro-choice" side does not seem to care that their position completely inhibits the pro-life's side ability to choose.  We want to live in a world where life is respected and cherished.  We want to meet all those cute babies that are seen as mistakes or accidents and tossed aside like garbage.  But, you may say, wouldn't the pro-life side completely hinder the "pro-choice" side's ability to live as they choose?  As our beloved Pope John Paul II said, "freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."  It seems to me that societies laws should be a good secular match to the laws of God.  All good comes from God, and, because some members of society do not believe in God, His laws need to be translated and set in another context for them.  But God, in His infinite wisdom knows what is best for every human, whether they believe in Him or not.  Society at large seems to agree that murder is wrong.  I'm sure, in terrible fits of anger, one can believe that the world would be better off without an offensive person.  But, our laws protect that transgressor.  The angry party knows through God's laws, civil laws or both, that it is not okay to murder.  If the angry person decides to anyway, he is punished.  Somehow, along the way, society no longer applied this law of God and society to unborn babies.  Society also decided that each individual person should be able to decide for themselves if murdering an unborn baby was a just thing to do or not.  Laws need to apply to everyone.  If abortion is legal and encouraged - both of which seem horrifically true, what if everyone choose that route?  Society would end here pretty quickly.  You need to have laws that apply to everyone and allow for everyone to follow them.  How it does not seem chaotic and uncivilized to just let everyone pick and choose what is wrong and right for themselves and have no code applicable to everyone, I will never understand.  I especially will not understand this "pro-choice" culture because, as I hope I have proven, there is no true choice.  It is a culture of death that needs to be overturned.