Leadership Quote by Sharron Angle

A slogan trying to cosplay as nuance. By calling herself "pro responsible choice", Sharron Angle reaches for the cultural muscle memory of "pro-choice" while attempting to reroute it into a moral lecture: the only acceptable choices are the ones that keep you from needing abortion in the first place. It's political aikido - borrow your opponent's language, then flip the meaning so the listener lands where you want.

The phrasing does a lot of work. "You know" is an intimacy cue, a softener that invites agreement before an argument appears. "There is choice to abstain" leads with the most ideologically loaded option but frames it as just one item in a reasonable menu. Then comes "choice to do contraception", an attempt to sound pragmatic and modern without conceding anything about bodily autonomy once pregnancy exists. The closing, "all kinds of good choices", turns policy into etiquette: not rights, not healthcare, not law, but a set of socially approved behaviors.

The subtext is a quiet redefinition of what "choice" is allowed to mean. It's not a woman's decision about her own pregnancy; it's a demand that women preempt risk in ways the state can applaud. In the late-2000s/early-2010s culture-war ecosystem that produced Angle's rise, this rhetorical move mattered: it offered conservative voters the comfort of moral clarity while giving swing voters the illusion of moderation. "Responsible" becomes the pressure point - a word that flatters the listener while policing the bounds of their freedom.