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Originally posted by ktsnake
Val, you're oversimplifying the pro-life argument. To them, it's not simply a "medical procedure". It's killing a defenseless human being.
While I personally don't completely agree with that position, I don't agree with yours either. Men are allowed to believe in principles that effect people besides themselves. The pro-choice movement does have some strong, intelligent arguments -- why not use them?
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I understand what you're saying and you're right, but I can't say I really understand the belief behind it (plus it just bothers me when men are pro-life because they can't really understand the feeling of "Oh shit what if I'm pregnant" and unless you can understand that, I have a hard time taking your opinion on the issue seriously, from a personal perspective).
I look at it like this -- I am a strict vegetarian and I find it morally wrong to eat meat -- really morally wrong. I'd love to live in a world where nobody killed animals for food. However, I realize that not everybody agrees with me and I can respect the fact that others eat meat -- even though to me, it's killing an innocent, defenseless creature. When it comes down to it, it is not my place to determine what other people do -- and believe me, there are many, many things that I don't agree with that other people do.
To me, the biggest problem with the pro-life argument, from a personal (not legal -- I don't want to get all lawyery right now because I'm drinking a beer) is that to deny a woman an abortion is to FORCE her to carry something inside her body that she does not want there, and to force her to deal with all the crap that goes with pregnancy. I find that unacceptable. It sounds crass but I'll say it anyway -- imagine if you had a tapeworm and it was making you feel sick but someone told you that you had to keep it there for nine months. I don't believe that an "unborn child's" "rights" should ever outweigh those of a woman, period.
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