Theoretical question about reproductive rights.

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10. I don't see the black and white in this...

OK, we all agree the wild-eyed evangelicals and their lackeys who want to criminalize abortion are completely out of line and must be stopped.

But, there are people who just can't deal with certain propositions for their own reasons. I've known good women who had all the "correct" positions on taxes, employment, other legal matters and all sorts of good lefty stuff dear to all of us while working their butts off on charitable and political projects, but just couldn't get away from the belief that life started at inception. It therefore wasn't only her personal choice, but a meta issue like the death penalty.

So, what to do? Have her club card pulled because of this one belief that runs counter to the mainstream?

The general idea is that "choice" means I can believe pretty much anything and do pretty much what I believe as long as it doesn't affect others. It's "my" choice, and I can't impose it on you.

But, there are those pesky gray areas that keep popping up and making it inconvenient to keep to the dogma. I always thought that progessivism, liberalism, and all that other good stuff we claim to believe in precludes blind acceptance of dogma. Each individual is a unique case, not an item on a list to be checked off.