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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what I mean about the diversity of opinions about abortion:

"Do you think abortion should be legal in all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in most cases, or illegal in all cases?"
 ABC News/Washington Post Poll 3/7-10/12

legal in all cases: 21	 
legal in most cases: 33	
illegal in most cases: 25	
illegal in all cases: 17	 
unsure: 3

Another way to ask the question is presented by Quinnipac  2/14-20/12:
"In general, do you agree or disagree with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to an abortion?"

Agree: 64	 
Disagree: 31	 
Unsure: 5

Pew presents yet another stab at the topic: 2/8-12/12

"Do you personally believe that having an abortion is morally acceptable, morally wrong, or is it not a moral issue?"
 	
Morally acceptable: 13	 
Morally wrong: 48	 
Not a moral issue: 25	 
Depends: 9	 
Unsure: 5

And another (Gallup 5/5-8/11)
"With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?"

Pro-choice: 49	 
Pro-life: 45	 
Neither/mixed: 3	 
Don't know what the term means:2	 
Unsure: 2

What I make of this is that on both sides, the people holding relatively pure positions are in the minority.  To a good half of the country, the subject is complicated or somewhat situational.  But when someone is asked to stand on one side of the dividing line of Pro-choice vs pro-abortion, there you find a relatively even split.

So the good news for a pure pro-choice or pro-life person is that lots of people side with you to a degree when it comes to the law.  But the flip side is that people who are philosophically like-minded are much rarer.  To me, this is not a surprise.  [b]A fetus may not be a person, but to most people, especially parents, it is not "nothing" either[/b].

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But at what point does it become "something"?  As someone who is pro-life, I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of letting individuals decide for themselves whether the entity that they are choosing to kill is indeed a person.  It's just too big of a deal to simply leave up to individual opinions.[/quote]

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