Salamander
Fire Walking

The Right to Choose
Choose Life
Right to Die
Right to Life
Pro-life
Pro-choice
The Culture of Life

This newest call to arms, "The Culture of Life," is all the more remarkable because it actually introduces an entirely new word into the vocabulary of rhetoric. Not counting "of", "to" and "the" (which are the literary equivalents of the blank tile in Scrabble) we now have the following words in play in the Great Ethics Debate of Our Times:

Choice/Choose
Culture
Death/Die
Life/Live
Right
Pro-

As any presidential speechwriter knows, this opens up brave new vistas of word spinning. To make things easier for both sides, I offer the following as a less-than-comprehensive list of possibilities now available with this new approved vocabulary:

Feel free to add your own. The sooner we can all get this out of our systems, the sooner we can have a meaningful dialogue about life and death. Who knows, we might even get to introduce a new word into the lexicon. My own humble proposal? : Humane.