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In reply to the discussion: I'm pro abortion. [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)It's like saying you're pro-death penalty, which is different from "I support a convicted person's right to choose death over life in prison in 23 hour solitary confinement". If I held the attitude that a person in such a circumstance could even be making that call of their own free will, it'd still not going to get me on a jury in a capital case. I'd have to convince a judge I thought I had the right to choose life or death for another adult human being just because they committed a crime. I don't, let alone the right to tell them what to do with a fetus inside them.
I'm pro-choice. Women should not be coerced into aborting OR carrying, but supported by society 100% in whatever decision they make for that pregnancy.
And we as a society do a piss-poor job of supporting the woman through *either* decision because politics is so focused on what their decision should or should not be. Pregnant women shouldn't be having to get preached at and called a slut to get diapers for the baby they wanted to keep after unintentionally getting pregnant, which is the situation many find themselves in for exercising their choice. And yeah, they're getting called names, but it's worth it to them to get the diapers.
But it shouldn't be that way.