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Originally Posted by aelle  A last point before I let others speak: I find the way the debate is framed in the US particularly unhelpful. I know people who are both pro-abortion AND anti-choice - people, for example, who emit judgement on who should and shouldn't have babies. You've probably heard them, trash talking "welfare queens" who are having another baby "just to milk the system", or arguing that so-and-so should not keep her child because she's too poor/the father is not around/she is not mentally stable/she is in an open relationship/etc. Being pro-conscious-choice, to me, means embracing the entirety of its definition, which goes well beyond the question of the legality of abortion. |
I agree with your assessment that the way the debate is structured almost ensures that it remains a debate where people debate at each other without even understanding their respective positions on it.