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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)To me, abortion is making a decision about whether someone lives or not. The only difference between you and I is that I believe that life begins at conception, so to me, that is a human being in the womb, and when you end that life with an abortion, you have killed another human being.
Look, we can call each other sorry MFers all day long, but it will get us nowhere. We are NOT going to agree on when life begins. That's a given. Let's accept that difference, okay? And stop lobbing hatred at each other. If we can't do that, we've created another problem for ourselves, because our enemies will use it as a wedge between us, and screw us to death on other issues. And, they are doing JUST THAT, by trying to take away birth control, for God's sake!
Let's look, instead, at ways that we can solve the problem of abortion. NO ONE is pro-abortion (well, most aren't, anyway). Let's use our energy, and our anger, to put into place education for young children, so that they have information about birth control, and information about their own bodies, so that they can use it properly, at a YOUNG AGE. BEFORE they even think about having sex. Let's work to make birth control affordable and available to ALL who want it.
Until we do that, really, neither one of us really has gained a proper moral stance to fight over abortion, because we can't say that we did everything that we could do to make it truly avoidable.