How do you feel about changing the label, "pro-choice" to "pro-freedom" to level out the semantic, value-ridden minefield that is the abortion and women's reproductive rights debate?

It's a fair move. As the debate must be elevated from knee-jerk, emotional fighting giving the abortion advocates a label with as much gravity as life is appropriate.

It's uncalled for. Using the word freedom undermines that the anti-abortion advocates are focused on protecting the child's rights (in and out of the womb)

I don't know.

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A majority of Americans do not want to see abortion criminalized, but the nation is evenly divided between those who call themselves pro-life and those who call themselves pro-choice. Although abortion rights supporters can take heart that they retain the advantage on practical matters of law and policy, the antiabortion movement seems to be winning the framing war with its 'pro-life' label. It is this trend, not changing policy views, that the Gallup polls have picked up"

[taken from article written by Nancy Cohen linked below]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cohen-abortion-20100529,0,5336153.story

http://www.salon.com/news/abortion/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/06/01/pro_choice_versus_pro_freedom