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[quote=Anonymous]Pro-choice poster here: I agree with the OP that there is no real usefulness to engaging with pro-life posters...but I also am troubled by the idea that some people feel these posters must be "reported."

What usually drags these threads into pointless arguing is when people who are not the original poster feel like they have to fight. I'm pro-choice. That's not going to change. But I don't feel like I need to fight with every anti-abortion poster. Why should they change for me?

It's a free country, DCUM is lightly monitored, and some people feel like they have to witness to their faith in threads about abortion. That's their right (unless Jeff wants to make new rules) As long as the comments aren't abusive to the original poster -- and in the case of the T18 poster, they were not, last time I checked -- then what is the point in saying "no, you're wrong, shut up?" None of us will convince the other. So just let people say what they want to say (within the bounds of decency) and try to refrain from engaging.

Maybe the OP really didn't know about the existence of perinatal hospice. Maybe there's someone else who is reading who would be very helped by that information. I'm pro choice but I'm not afraid to hear from women who have made choices OTHER THAN abortion, and I'm not upset that such choices exist and that they are talked about (again, within the bounds of decent discourse)[/quote]

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