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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)There are other lives than the life of an embryo/fetus.
There are other choices than the choice to have an abortion.
The issue was and is always about one thing: abortion. Each side of the debate simply likes to use their own flowerly terms in order to try to gain an rhetorical advantage on their side and to further demonize the other side. Hence, you get "anti-life" and "anti-choice." But who can hate life? Who can hate choice? They might as well call themselves "pro-sunshine" or "pro-puppy" while they are at it.
And you are indeed correct when you say abortion is a legal medical procedure. But in terms of public debate and questions of morals and ethics, it is one that will continue to draw heavy debate for eons, whether it is legal, illegal, with restrictions or without. Let's be honest here: no one is talking about the legal right to have a masectomy. As medical procedures go, abortion is one that brings to the table a complex host of questions without a lot of easy answers.
However, I've been around both sides of the debate long enough to realize that the "debate" has devolved from logical and rational discourse into who can put forward the best bumper sticker slogans and make the opposing school of thought look as horrible as possible.