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Which gives me, a long time liberal supporter of "women's right to choose", pro-choice in the American vernacular, to say that there is a thing that doesn't make sense.
Which gives me, a long time liberal supporter of "women's right to choose", pro-choice in the American vernacular, to say that there is a thing that doesn't make sense.
All supporters of abortion say that "women mist have the right to control their own bodies".
But it's *not* their own bodies. It's a separate living human being.
Duh... how did that take me so long to realise? OTHO, plenty of other pro choice people act as if the other human being doesn't exist. That somehow they are a part of her body.
And, by the way, it doesn't change the calculus of the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. It might seem to, but the moral argument is the same. Either one accepts that there is a a living homo sapiens which must be protected no matter its origin or one doesn't.
It's not as simple as "reproductive rights" or a woman being able to have sovereignty over her own body.
That said I'm not yet ready to go full pro-life. I'm still pro choice mainly because of the safety element. Women will find backyard abortion ones if they can't find legal ones. But it should not be celebrated — as it has been by some zealous American feminists — because that's bizarre and kind of off, and abortion ought to be "safe, legal and rare". And not celebrated.
