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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Corsi's right though. The fact that you are framing thisas a reproductive rights issue as opposed to an "unborn fetus" issue is part of the problem.
Pro-life people don't see the debate that way. If they did, they would likely agree with you, but to them they view it is as protecting the life of an innocent unborn child.
You can't just keep saying "it is a reproductive rights issue" and make it so.
I would argue it's both, and we as a society have determined that a women's reproductive rights are more important than an unborn child's.
I hope you can also appreciate that while a person may have a moral issue with abortion (i.e. I may personally find it offensive), I can believe that legally it should be up to a woman. This does not make me a misogynist.
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That says you're pro-choice. I personally probably would not have an abortion either--but it's not my decision to make for anyone else.
Mike Pence is
actively and continually legislating ways to take away a woman's right to choose. That makes him misogynistic.
Again, the pro-life movement would be really impressive if they actually carried that pro-life argument into areas of life other than mandating that a woman carry a pregnancy to term. But they don't. So I can't accept that it's a
moral issue if those people can stand by silently while children in Flint, MI have been dealing with lead poisoned water for
years.
You can't claim to be pro-life and end it at childbirth. That is what Mike Pence and many pro-life groups do. That is not pro-life. That is pro-fetus. There are a multitude of good things that "pro-life" groups could be doing. Closing down PP is not one of those good things. Preventing a rape victim from having an abortion is not one of those things.
Bottom line of all of this, however: Pence is
actively legislating to limit Roe v. Wade's scope. That is misogynistic.
Being pro-choice while
personally having an issue with abortion is not.