Both the pro-life and pro-choice viewpoints can be supported rationally.
The debate is valuable because it demonstrates a conflict of fundamental values, as well as the very nature of what it means to be human.
But the debate cannot result in a perfect resolution, and the best anyone can hope for is that somehow it allows us to choose the resolution which is the least inconsistent with the values we consider important.
Assertions that one position is "right" and another is "wrong" is nothing more than an expression of different values combined with the abandonment of rational thought in favour of an emotional response. There is no black and white to this debate, and there is no position you can take that leaves you with clean hands.
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