Support guilt-free murder? New app changes term 'Pro-Life' to 'Anti-Choice' in web browsers
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In an unsettling move, a woman who wishes to remain anonymous created a computer program to change the term "pro-life" to "anti-choice" in Google Chrome web browsers.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
2/22/2016 (8 years ago)
Published in Marriage & Family
Keywords: Google Chrome, extension, pro-life, anti-choice, internet browser, life
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The anonymous activist teamed up with the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund (NIRH) to write a computer program people can install to internet browser Google Chrome, which allows the term "pro-life" to appear as "anti-choice."
The extension's description reads: "Those who stand against a woman's right to decide what is best for her own body prop themselves up as righteous saviors using a problematic framework of rhetoric and religion.
The obvious error in the creator's application is that it supports the idea that life is not initiated upon conception - an idea the devil has spread throughout the world to ease the guilty consciences of families who choose to kill their children before they have a chance to see what God has planned for them.
Several people commented on the Chrome app, calling its creator a "liberal" who doesn't "want to hear anything that challenges their views."
Changing the term "pro-life" to "anti-choice" suggests the subject is a woman's choice, rather than a child's life.
The extension caused an uproar that even actor James Woods had to enter. On his Twitter profile, Woods wrote, "For those who can't win an argument based on reasoning, changing the language will have to suffice... #abortion."
The post was accompanied by a link to thinkprogress, where the extension is bashed for labeling the "singularly focused" word "abortion," rather than working on "other policy proposals that could save lives."
Andrea Miller, NIRH president, told ThinkProgress: "If you state that something is pro-life, then the opposite of that is obviously quite demonizing. It's incredibly loaded...The fundamental challenge is that we look for labels that are very short and simple, but this is not a short a simple issue.
"I'm not sure we'll ever find the magic answer. But we want people to take a moment to stop and think, hey, what is the agenda here, and based on that agenda, where do I really fall?"
Miller and the anonymous computer programmer attempt to claim the term "anti-choice" is superior to "pro-life" as it makes anyone who supports abortion appear to be anti-children, but they fail to see that to they are, by definition, "anti-children" when they support the murder of unborn babies.
The extension has 19 reviews, several of which are a single star, but somehow it's overall ranking is five stars and it has been downloaded 328 times.
Will we continue to allow people to deny the life that God has placed in women? How far can this simple extension travel? Will it soon be politically correct to use language with absolutely no religious or "offensive" language? It seems such times are certainly upon us. God save us all.
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