Both pro-life and pro-choice infuriate me, they represent a tiny part of the population and have completely polarized the abortion debate. You've got nuts on both sides and really what do they accomplish? Nothing, no democratic debate, no discussion... just idiotic chanting of slogans at one another. Maybe elements of the pro-choice movement have the upper hand, pro-life can't seem to produce the valid arguments to support their position.
As for my own 2-bits, I like just about every Canadian and Albertan am pro-choice. Give me any reason for the legitimacy of legal abortion and I will give you my full intellectual agreement. To roughly quote Aristotle, the more perogatives we have, the more human we are. A woman should always have the choice as to what to do with her body.
However, just like the average Canadian, I am thankful my mother didn't have an abortion. It truly makes me a little bit uncomfortable with the possible desensitization to life that abortion may introduce into our society.
That's where I beleive pro-life is trying to go with their comparisons of genocide to abortion, it's just very extreme, disrespectful and distasteful.
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