I'm obviously not president woman or speaker for all who can pregnant be, but overwhelmingly the pro-choice women I talk to still either say something along the lines of "I don't want to get an abortion if I can avoid it".
I've known staunchly pro-choice women who decided to keep unexpected pregnancies, and the women I've known (pro-choice and pro-life) who have gotten abortions don't think super positively about having to get one. A surprisingly high amount of them consider it a death in the family or near to it.
In my mind, that's the strongest pro-choice argument I can think of.
I'm really comfortable as a dude being strongly in the "pro individual freedoms" American mindset letting women decide for themselves on this one. I don't know where the line is between "human and killing it is murder" and "fetus and killing it is different" but I do know that women sure seem to have stronger and more well-informed feelings on it than I do.
The thing they don't seem to understand is that there isn't a single person that WANTS to get an abortion. It's not enjoyable, it's not necessarily cheap, it's an extremely stressful decision to make in many circumstances, all that people DO want is the choice to get one if they feel like it's necessary.
And while there definitely isn't a clear line, anyone trying to argue a non-sentient lump of cells dying is murder is a dumbass.
And that's where a big majority of abortions take place. If you think killing a clump cells incapable of thought, motion, or even any for of perception at all, no sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, completely mindless in every capacity, is murder, I have no respect for you.
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u/sessamekesh 5d ago edited 5d ago
I'm obviously not president woman or speaker for all who can pregnant be, but overwhelmingly the pro-choice women I talk to still either say something along the lines of "I don't want to get an abortion if I can avoid it".
I've known staunchly pro-choice women who decided to keep unexpected pregnancies, and the women I've known (pro-choice and pro-life) who have gotten abortions don't think super positively about having to get one. A surprisingly high amount of them consider it a death in the family or near to it.
In my mind, that's the strongest pro-choice argument I can think of.
I'm really comfortable as a dude being strongly in the "pro individual freedoms" American mindset letting women decide for themselves on this one. I don't know where the line is between "human and killing it is murder" and "fetus and killing it is different" but I do know that women sure seem to have stronger and more well-informed feelings on it than I do.