The terminology issue of abortion gets insane airtime for something that I have to assume has never been meaningfully persuasive to anyone. The guy thinks you think it's okay to kill babies. You think the guy thinks it's okay to control women's bodies and deny them medical care. At that point, who cares if he wants to call your position "pro-abortion" and you want to call his position "disturbing"?

Are people really wavering in the middle, eager to pick a side but terrified of being labelled as anti-choice or anti-life? Maybe kids are deciding their position based on which words sound nicer rather than agreeing with / rebelling against their parents? And these kids already know enough that "pro-abortion" means "villain" to them?

You rarely (or never) see a discussion about, say, Trump turn into a litigation of whether it's okay to call the opposition libtards/rwnjs/SJWs/MAGAts, but that stuff has to make up more than half of abortion discussion. Is it just that people are loath to actually talk about the issue at this point and this is another outlet?