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In reply to the discussion: I'm pro abortion. [View all]

moriah

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24. It kind of does, and leaves out the issues of societal/financial coercion.
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 01:23 PM
Jul 2018

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.

I'm pro abortion. [View all] Voltaire2 Jul 2018 OP
I'm pro choice DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2018 #1
Absolutely- but there is nothing wrong with choosing abortion. Voltaire2 Jul 2018 #2
Abortion is one of the options available in Choice, if a woman chooses it. Blue_true Jul 2018 #12
I am too. If you want or need one it's nobody else's business. we can do it Jul 2018 #3
Also pro-abortion. It's a safe, simple procedure that does what it's intended to do, which is WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2018 #4
I am pro-abortion as a woman's medical option/necessity. demmiblue Jul 2018 #5
I stand with you, Voltaire2. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 #6
I am also pro abortion. Metatron Jul 2018 #7
K&R for, I'm pro-Choice UTUSN Jul 2018 #8
I'm pro safe medical procedures MurrayDelph Jul 2018 #9
Same here. When Cons bring the Bible into it, I smack them down with how church perverts passages. TheBlackAdder Jul 2018 #10
Pro Choice is a much better term. Blue_true Jul 2018 #11
Saying one is pro-abortion doesn't even hint Mariana Jul 2018 #14
Neither does pro choice. But pro choice don't allow republicans to tar and feather us. Blue_true Jul 2018 #16
And we've done very well over the last 30 years Voltaire2 Jul 2018 #18
They framed it on us by us using pro abortion. Blue_true Jul 2018 #23
It kind of does, and leaves out the issues of societal/financial coercion. moriah Jul 2018 #24
I am also pro appendectomy and pro cholecystectomy when medically indicated. McCamy Taylor Jul 2018 #13
i am pro-abortion, too. mopinko Jul 2018 #15
I have four kids and had I not lost three might have had 7....can you imagine? Demsrule86 Jul 2018 #22
I am pro-population reduction. roamer65 Jul 2018 #17
I'm Pro-choice Raine Jul 2018 #19
I'm pro woman. It's nobody's business what we decide to do with our bodies. Vinca Jul 2018 #20
Hear! Hear! Raster Jul 2018 #28
I am too. A woman has the right decide about her own body...and the rightwing hypocrites who Demsrule86 Jul 2018 #21
Safe, legal and available abortion Johnny2X2X Jul 2018 #25
Same here! 50 Shades Of Blue Jul 2018 #26
If a woman wants to have an abortion... Raster Jul 2018 #27
It's a horrible procedure Soxfan58 Jul 2018 #29
Saw "freakenomics" on HBO? DiverDave Jul 2018 #30
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