I hope the esteemed members of NARAL have a moment to answer a few questions.  For those intellectually honest enough to try, please don't think of it as a quiz so much as a moral inventory of sorts.  Wait, do that only if you choose.....

1)      Do you support and promote the choice to abstain from dangerous activities including, but not limited to, high risk same-sex encounters, teen sex, and casual sex? Do you support and promote school districts choosing programs that encourage or educate students about that choice as it is the only 100% effective way to avoid both STDs and pregnancy?

2)      Do you support and promote the choice of a home owner to own a gun to protect them in the event that some miscreant chooses to illegally trespass, break and enter, or violently attack them?

3)      Do you support and promote the choice of an un-wed mother, who unexpectedly finds she is pregnant, to carry the child to term and then either raise the child or place it into adoptive care? Do you support and promote her choice if the baby is not 100% healthy or is not guaranteed a long life?

4)      Do you support and promote the choice of an individual to allocate their funds as they see fit when it comes to helping those less fortunate than they? With regards to their retirement? With regards to education for their children?

5)      Do you support and promote the right of a restaurant owner to choose to offer the fare of his choice in his own establishment? Do you support the right of a business owner to allow or disallow smoking in his own establishment? Do you support or promote the concept that a customer has a choice to patronize or not patronize an establishment based upon its fare? Its prices? Its location? Its policies? The attractiveness of its staff?

6)      Do you support and promote the choice of a localized community to set its own standards of conduct and accomplishment without federal intervention? 

7)      Do you support and promote the choice of family members to encourage the use of any and all medical means at their disposal to extend the life of a loved one?

8)      Do you support and promote the choice of a private enterprise to hire and promote solely on the basis of merit or an academic institution to allow admissions based solely on the same?

9)      Do you support and promote an individual’s choice to vocalize words, phrases, or ideas that run contrary to the beliefs of others?

10)  Do you support and promote the choice of a pharmacist to decline to personally   fill a prescription that conflicts with the tenets of her religion?

(Bonus fun: Did you choose to read the previous question differently because of my choice to use the feminine pronoun rather than the masculine?)

11)   Do you support and promote the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy? To seek means to do so? To actually terminate the pregnancy? To do so without notification of parents or significant others?

Now, the theory I’d like to posit here is that a self-proclaimed pro-“Choice” Advocate probably answered “yes” to only 1 of 11. Perhaps 2 of 11 if you count the bonus question. In any event, I simply wanted to point out their hypocrisy.

            Truth be told, these pro-“Choice” acolytes are the antithesis of choice. They want to choose for you thus effectively eliminating all choice. Perhaps, “Proto-Fascist” would be a more apt description. That may seem harsh, but facts don’t lie.  And while the Left has for years trotted out the “fascist” retort to any and all things Conservative, the hard truth is that the term is much more fitting for Liberal policies and rallying points (for more literate and researched evidence, consult Jonah Goldberg’s brilliant Liberal Fascism). 

The above questions offer a very fair litmus test with regards to the issue of “choice” in its purest form. It is amazing how so many of the self-same pro-“Choice” zealots would not allow choice on so many other issues rooted in the Constitution. It is also interesting that they simply glom onto the issue of abortion of which they are staunchly in favor.

This begs the question, if they are not willing to wear the bigger badge of “Proto-fascist” as I am sure they would not, would they choose to make clear their true affiliation by proclaiming themselves “Pro-abortion”? That seems like a simple enough question. And, strangely, yet one more to which they would more than likely answer “No” today.