Secular Pro-Life
  • Home
  • About
    • Meet The Team
    • Mission and Vision
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Stances
      • Abortion
      • Religion
      • Contraception
      • The Rape Exception
    • Terms and Conditions
      • Opt-out preferences
  • Content
    • Index
    • Blog
    • Presentations
      • A Secular Case Against Abortion
      • Building Bridges
      • Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths
      • Overlooked Findings of the Turnaway Study
    • Research
      • Abortion Law and Abortion Rates
      • Abortion Law and Pregnancy Rates
      • Later Abortion
      • Embryonic Hearts
    • Collections
      • Becoming Pro-Life
      • They can hear you
      • Parents can hear you
      • Our children’s heartbeats
      • Ask An Atheist
      • LGBTQ and Pro-Life
      • Fixed that meme for you
      • For the biology textbook tells me so
    • Print Materials
      • 100 Pro-Life Sign Ideas
      • Overview of SPL
      • 3 Reasons to tell people you’re pro-life
      • How to talk (not fight) about abortion
      • Bridges PRC Curriculum
      • Fetal Remains Disposition Protocol
      • FAQ handout
      • Presentations overview card
    • Store
  • Contact
  • Get Involved
    • Why support SPL?
    • Donor Opportunities
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Volunteer Survey
    • More Surveys
      • Why do you support SPL?
      • Best and Worst Abortion Arguments
      • “Ask An Atheist” Interview
      • Non-Traditional Pro-Life Survey
      • LGBT Pro-Life Survey
      • Parents experiences with prenatal screening
      • Your experiences with adoption
      • Your experiences with processing abortion
  • Donate
  • Search
  • Menu Menu

Pro-choice vs Pro-life vocabulary

September 28, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

I adjust the vocabulary I use in my work depending on my target audience. For example, if I’m giving a speech to a pro-life crowd, I’ll inevitably use certain words and phrases that I would avoid when giving a presentation to predominantly pro-choice students. I change it up because, most of the time, I want listeners to focus on my main points without getting distracted by vernacular that signals we’re on opposing sides. Rather than get hung up on debates about connotations, I will often try to express my points in whatever language I think the target audience is most accustomed to.

To that end I’ve compiled lists of words and phrases that typically indicate the speaker is either pro-life or pro-choice. (Note the lists aren’t a commentary on which phrases are useful, accurate, or effective, only which side usually uses them.) If you have suggestions for additions, feel free to contact us and let us know.

Pro-choice Vocabulary

  • 6-week ban (referring to heartbeat legislation)
  • abortion care
  • abortion is healthcare
  • an acorn is not a tree
  • anti-choice
  • antis
  • bans off our bodies
  • blow job is cannibalism
  • burning IVF lab/fertility clinic
  • cardiac cells
  • clump of cells
  • don’t force you religion on others
  • don’t like abortion, don’t get one
  • electrical activity
  • every child a wanted child
  • fake clinics
  • fertilized egg
  • fetal pole cardiac activity
  • fewer rights than a corpse
  • forced birth
  • forced birther
  • forced pregnancy
  • full range of reproductive care
  • gestational age bans (referring to heartbeat legislation)
  • gestational slavery
  • get your rosaries off my ovaries
  • Handmaid’s Tale
  • heavy period
  • induced miscarriage
  • internalized misogyny
  • later abortion
  • marginalized women/groups
  • masturbation is genocide
  • medication abortion
  • menstruation is murder
  • my body my choice
  • no uterus, no opinion
  • obstetric violence
  • parasite
  • personally pro-life
  • potential life
  • pro-birth
  • products of conception
  • reproductive justice
  • reproductive rights
  • safe and effective
  • safe, legal, and accessible
  • safe, legal, and free
  • safe, legal, and rare
  • self-managed abortion
  • shout your abortion
  • terminate a pregnancy
  • tissue
  • trust women
  • unwanted pregnancy
  • Violinist argument
  • ZEF

Pro-life Vocabulary

  • abolitionist
  • abortifacient
  • abortion business
  • abortion industry
  • abortion mill
  • abortion pill reversal
  • abortion survivors
  • abortionist
  • abortion-minded
  • abortuary
  • baby
  • baby killer
  • black genocide
  • chemical abortion
  • crisis pregnancy centers
  • commit abortions
  • deathscorts (clinic escorts)
  • difficult cases
  • dismemberment ban
  • elective abortion
  • expectant mother
  • gendercide
  • heart
  • heartbeat
  • heartbeat bill
  • hell
  • Holocaust reference
  • infanticide
  • late-term abortion
  • life-affirming
  • life begins at conception
  • love them both
  • men regret lost fatherhood
  • murder/murderer
  • partial birth abortion
  • post-abortion healing
  • post abortion syndrome
  • post-abortive
  • preborn
  • pregnancy resource centers
  • pro-abortion
  • pro-death
  • pro-life
  • sidewalk counselors
  • treating both patients
  • unborn
  • unborn baby
  • what if you were aborted?
  • womb

Neutral Vocabulary

  • abortion clinic?
  • abortion provider
  • anti-abortion
  • embryo
  • fetus
  • self-induced abortion
  • unintended pregnancy
  • uterus
  • zygote

Related Posts

Share this entry
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Reddit
  • Share by Mail
https://i0.wp.com/secularprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/brett-jordan-POMpXtcVYHo-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1440&ssl=1 1440 1920 Monica Snyder https://secularprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SecularProlife2.png Monica Snyder2022-09-28 05:24:002024-02-21 12:12:59Pro-choice vs Pro-life vocabulary
0 replies

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Follow via Email

* indicates required

Categories

  • Ableism
  • Abortion pills
  • Administrative
  • Adoption & Foster Care
  • Biology
  • Bodily Rights
  • Dialogue strategy
  • en español
  • Later Abortion
  • Legislation, laws, & court cases
  • Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss
  • Personhood
  • Philosophy
  • Pro-Life Demographics
  • Rape Exception
  • Religion
  • Research
  • Speeches, Discussions, Presentations
  • SPL Emails
  • They Can Hear You
  • Top SPL Articles
  • Top SPL Graphics
  • Uncategorized
  • We Asked You Answered
  • Year In Review
  • Your Stories

Archive

It’s crucial that we demonstrate that anyone can–and everyone should–oppose abortion. Thanks to you, we are working to change minds, transform our culture, and protect our prenatal children. Every donation supports our ability to provide nonsectarian, nonpartisan arguments against abortion. Read more details here. Please donate today.

DONATE
SUBSCRIBE
© Copyright 2025 Secular Pro-Life. All rights reserved. Website Design by TandarichGroup

Related Posts

Ask a Pro-Life Atheist: Kelsey Hazzard “The unborn” are a convenient group…
Scroll to top
Manage Consent

To provide the best experience, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}

Subscribe for Livestream Updates and More

* indicates required

Interests

Want to receive our email newsletter?

We’d be happy to keep in touch. Subscribe for access to our newsletter and other updates.