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    What if you're pro-choice, but still think abortion is a very bad thing?

    After much thought, this is the position I have taken up. I believe that a woman's rights over her body are absolute, but I still consider abortion an abhorrent practice, which should be avoided as much as possible.

    The only circumstance in which I consider abortion morally acceptable is either when the mother's life is in danger, or when she is in such a condition that the child is better dead than alive (this may happen sometimes when the child is absolutely unwanted). However, is should be legally acceptable at all times.

    Do other people share this view? If so, how many do? And why is opinion so starkly divided on this issue? Why are there so few who are more moderate, like me?
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    In Europe most people are moderate and we see the extreme views in the US as pretty mental.

    That said, I think a lot of Americans are pretty moderate on the issue but the ones that aren't are very vocal.
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    • #3
      aneeshm

      There are plenty of Americans who share that POV.
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      • #4
        What if you're pro-choice, but still think abortion is a very bad thing?
        You're normal. edit: about this anyway

        The key, IMO, is reducing unwanted pregnacies. That's the angle I'd pursue. That, of course, means sex ed & easy access to birth control, which if you're a fundy type is doubleplusungood.

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        • #5
          It's a mischaracterization by the American religious right that has all pro-choice people being rabid, abortion-loving crazies.
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          • #6
            To be fair, that cuts both ways. Not every abortion opponent is a fundy whackjob. The loudest ones are. The more extreme pro-choice types are also rather loud.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Admiral
              It's a mischaracterization by the American religious right that has all pro-choice people being rabid, abortion-loving crazies.
              Agreed. In fact most in America are likely adherents to this POV.


              But just as likely is the mis characterization of any Christian as a fundy religious sexually repressed wacko.
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              • #8
                You're slow, dude. I had that covered already.

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                • #9
                  The only girls I've ever ****ed have been Christian...
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                  • #10
                    grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                    The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                    • #11
                      Well, at least I assume they were. They sure screamed out for Jesus a lot...
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                        Well, at least I assume they were. They sure screamed out for Jesus a lot...
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                        • #13
                          I don't know anyone who thinks abortion is cool. On the contrary, I think almost everyone views it as bad and sad. And your view has a landsliding majority in Europe, except maybe Jesus hating Poland and the gay friendly Vatican.

                          Abortion is not even a hot potato or a headliner or any kind of question in many countries in here.

                          But sure, at some point, when MOST of us see the little alien is turning into a human, well that's when it becomes illegal, except if the life of the mother is in danger.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Arrian
                            You're slow, dude. I had that covered already.

                            -Arrian
                            So .....
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Asher

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