I think people should, in general, choose not to have abortions

[Daemonaquila]

58. Shaming is shaming.

And you're shaming.

I've always had a huge problem with the argument that "you, or I, or your best friend might have been aborted!!!" Aside from the shaming aspect, it's intellectually dishonest.

There's the religious counterargument... Mainstream christian/catholic doctrine (until politics made them fudge about it in recent decades) was that a fetus isn't ensouled until it's born. This was absolutely rational doctrine - after all, why would an omniscient, omnipotent, loving god bother dropping souls into fetuses that he knew would never be born, particularly in the long centuries of ridiculously high mortality rates? That's just crazy. So, no problem. Someone who's a believer would reasonably conclude that if mom was going to have an abortion, god would do the logical thing and put them in a fetus that was going to make it instead. When I hear religious pro-liars making this argument against abortion I want to ask them when they stopped believing in god, and maybe they should tend to that personal problem first.

The non-religious counterargument really isn't all that different. Worst case scenario, you never would know the difference and you wouldn't be missing a thing. In the better-case/mystical/scientific weirdness scenario, you have to ask about the nature of consciousness. The fact that you, or the illusion of you, came into consciousness is pretty staggering. But there is no scientific or mystical reason to believe that if a specific biological entity never made it out of the womb, "you" would not have some other opportunity to come into being. Shaming based on baseless assumptions in an area of fabulous scientific mystery just doesn't cut it.

Abortion. Safe. Legal. Available for any reason. Without limitation. Without shame. The end.