OK, here's another thing that really sticks in my craw. (Yeah, I know I claim to be formerly cranky...I'm still cranky, I'm just nicer and more gentle about it.)
I run into "pro-choice" folks who fall back into a position of saying that "pro-life" folks are moralistic and judgmental. I get this often enough that it can't be just me, it must be one of their talking points. Let me take these points in reverse order. By saying that someone is judgmental as if it were something negative, they are betraying a self-defeating relativism. Condemning a man for trying to impose his morality on others is trying to impose YOUR morality on him.
The claim that "pro-lifers" are moralistic is what really agitates me. If you look at it from a purely scientific perspective, human life begins at the moment of conception. Any attempt to say otherwise is an appeal to a moral argument. You can try to disguise it by saying that you don't want to be judgmental or that it's "above your pay grade," but placing the beginning of human life at any point other than the moment of conception is being moralistic.
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