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[quote=Anonymous]I was pro-choice before I got pregnant, and it was an issue I cared about a lot, though fairly abstractly. I have since had a baby and an abortion (in that order), and the issue is no longer abstract to me. I have very little sympathy for the emotional arguments that pretend to be scientific ("That clump of cells is a human being!") when those arguments' intention is to tell women how they should feel and what decisions they're allowed to make about their own bodies, their own experiences, their own family plans. The moral argument is okay, if you're applying it to your own experience and extending it to all other forms of taking lives (are you against the death penalty? are you a vegetarian? are you anti-war?). When the moral argument is not about your experience but about what you believe my experience should be, I am no longer particularly sympathetic. [/quote]
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