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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Liberals are a LOT MORE FOR LIFE than people who are against abortion and contraception. Maybe a better term is Pro-Choice and FOR Life - especially the little ones we've already got who are being crushed in poverty by the policies Mitt Romney wants to bring us back to.
I'd like to see more birth control available so someone doesn't need to have an abortion. I think it CAN be irresponsible to rely on abortion as birth control. VERY few do that because it is not something most women want to do a second time.
With the availability of the morning after pill someone who really doesn't want to be pregnant can hopefully use that as an alternative.
One odd thing I've noticed is people with solid birth control, like an IUD getting pregnant. Even a couple with tubes tied and a vasectomy. Still having periods AND pregnant. SO abortion needs to be a choice for someone who doesn't even know right away.
I'm pro-choice and pro-life in the sense that I respect ALL life and I have a preference against over use of abortion, but am not against reasonable use. I'm pro-choice because I don't believe that any of this is my call for another person.
Some people are 10+ on a scale of 1-10 on thinking abortion should be just another medical procedure and NO thought, absolutely NONE to the unborn. I'm probably an 8 where in most instances I'd like people to seriously consider the other options. I think women often have abortions because they live in fear these days. I'd like to see women's rights and lives lifted up to the point where getting pregnant isn't going to endanger a career or cause a person to be kicked out of their home or marry someone they don't love to provide economic security for their unborn child.
I'd like to see that every child born is a wanted child and has a healthy happy life, but I understand it's an imperfect world where tough decisions need to be made sometimes.