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Let me put this another way: why should it matter what you think about someone else's choices?
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Well, prochoice here.  But to play devil's advocate, [b]if someone sees abortion as murder, the they care when another person makes a choice to murder.  Sitting by silently makes them complicit, in their minds.[/b]
I agree abortion is a tragedy and I wouldn't have one.  I continue to support politicians and causes that support the right to choose.  I think the best thing we could do as a society is promote a culture where 1) abstinence is the ideal and 2) we teach young people that it would be UNTHINKABLE to ever have sex without birth control.  Just like a young person may be raised to assume "some day I will need feminine supplies to manage my period, some day I will drive, some day I will go to college, some day I will lose my virginity,  some day I will work...."  They should be raised to believe "some day I will need to rely on birth control, until I am ready to be a parent".  Since we can't rely on all parents to teach this, it would be in society's best interest to agressively promote birth control.  Just like we promoted the "Back to Sleep" campaign or "Click it or Ticket" we should have a campaign(s) that encourages all people to be reproductively responsible.  PREVENT ABORTIONS.  Eliminate demand.

Instead of just being up to date with vaccinations, maybe schools require that all kids have annual physicals to attend school, and all doctors have to have "the talk" with the kids each year, unless the parent refuses on religious grounds?  [/quote]

I get this, but the thing is, most anti-choice people DON'T actually see abortion as murder.  If they did, they wouldn't support exceptions for rape or incest -- after all, we don't kill born babies just because they are products of rape.  They see it as something else, something that they are uncomfortable with, and they really don't think is right, but, you know, I really don't think cheating on your spouse is right, but I'm not about to make it illegal.

I have so much more respect for the extreme anti-choicers who would make it illegal to have an abortion at any time for any reason.  I think they're wrong, but at least they're logically consistent and not hypocritical.[/quote]

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