What the Heck does "Anti-Choice" Mean?

In today's Globe and Mail, a letter to the editor refers to Conservative MP Elsie Wayne twice as "anti-choice."

What a ridiculous moniker to assign. I understand the need any movement has to create propaganda and buzzwords as part of the movement's language. But "anti-choice" has more layers than an onion (or an ogre, or a donkey.) It is an edifice constructed on the pro-choice movement's belief that they are not so much "pro-abortion" as for the choice being licitly available (an 'out' I suppose that lets politicians say that they are personally against it but are otherwise fine with it.)

If this movement wants to self-define in that way, that is their prerogative. But to devolve their self-definition down to their opponent, and affix the label "anti-choice" is plum ridiculous. Devolved down that far, it makes it sound like Elsie Wayne opposes your right to decide whether it is going to be mustard or ketchup on that hot dog, or whether you cheer for the Calgary Flames or the Philadelphia Flyers.

The movement opposing abortion self-defines as "pro-life." They should not have to wear the ridiculous banner designed for them by their opponents. It is the right of the pro-life movement to self-define as it sees fit - the embrace of human life, from the point at which they believe it begins.

So lets all leave the silliness that could just as easily insist Elsie Wayne wants to foreclose "choice" (about boxers or briefs?) behind.