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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)You're prolife? Or whatever the correct moniker is for the point you are making. That's fine. That's your right. You don't ever have to have an abortion if you choose not to. No one is ever going to make you abort a child if you choose not to. And if you were pregnant and chose to continue the pregnancy, I'd be the first to support your choice.
BUT...what I or any other woman do is OUR business. Not yours...not the government's...and not any one else's business who thinks differently than someone choosing to have an abortion thinks. The right of the mother transends the right of a fertilized egg. End of story in my book.
I, myself personally, see this issue as the very definition of who is liberal. How can one really be a liberal, and not support personal choice? I don't get it. Your right to be "prolife" ends on this issue with YOUR body. You have no further rights than your own body. You do not have the right to force your beliefs on any one else.