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I am pro choice because i believe women should have the right to decide whether to carry their pregnancies full term or not and we have no say in it.
So then you value that choice more so than the life itself. That's the end of that. I understand the sentiment, but you have to order things here. You can be appalled by abortion, but you value the choice over the life itself. It's a difficult position to be in because you're going to say either that the life is more important and piss people off because they think you're going against their property rights (essentially). Or you can say you value the choice, in which case you trivialize the life of the child. It's not like we don't know where babies come from anymore. The problem is that it's not equal across the sexes because reproduction is fundamentally not equal across the sexes.
But in the end, if one values life as much as possible, they have to understand what it is and what trumps what. I think life is life, and while I personally can't change the abortion laws I will neither sugar coat the actions of the destruction of human life. People want to make definitions and call things this or that to dehumanize the child so they feel ok about destroying it (this is general, not directed towards you). We do it with enemies too, we call them terrorists or whatever so we can rob them of their humanity so we don't feel bad about killing them. But I think we need to face up to what we do. Whether it be sex which results in the creation of life, of the destruction of human life. It should be faced head on and not through cowardly acts of rhetoric and dehumanizing victims.