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Miguelitro's avatar

Dave Murray: " Yet I am pro-choice, within the reason you spoke of. The issue isn't just the nine months of pregnancy, there is also eighteen years of responsibility. A responsibility that many are not ready for, with disastrous results."

You echo my dad, who was an LA County criminal prosecutor and for 17 years a Superior Court criminal judge. He saw those "disastrous results" every working day.

And you are absolutely right, even if your comment says "pro-abortion." Nobody is "pro-abortion." It's a "painful emotional choice" that necessarily needs to be available for the reasons you and my dad articulated. The only really sound arguments against it are religious and those don't belong in the political sphere in a secular government.

Nobody is telling pro-life people to get an abortion. The truth with the pro-life movement is, at bottom, that it doesn't believe in a secular government.

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Steve QJ's avatar

"The truth with the pro-life movement is, at bottom, that it doesn't believe in a secular government."

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Correct on "pro-abortion." While there are attention seekers like the idiot actress with a shirt boasting her multiple abortions. For most it is a painful decision that they keep to themselves.

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Chris Fox's avatar

I think there is something insane in demanding that a woman be forced to give birth. Nasty diatribes about "inconvenience" and "keeping her legs together" .. have these people no experience with sex?

Never mind that last part.

If she can't afford to have a child, that's as good a reason as fetal deformity.

Besides, we 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 err on the side of lower birth rate.

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