BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Just embracing the argument is all.
All too many abortion supporters get all offended when the suggestion is made that maybe they should have been aborted.
Your fallacy lies in your presumption that "pro choice" means "abortion supporter". That's not the case. I'm not pro-abortion. I detest the notion of abortion. I also detest obesity and cigarette smoking, but it's not my place to tell other people what to do with their bodies...and it's SURE AS HELL not the government's place to do so.
What I am is a realist. Prohibiting abortion doesn't prohibit abortion. All it does is drive it underground, just like prohibiting alcohol didn't stop people from drinking; it just meant more people drank unsafe/poisonous illegal liquor. We know what happens when abortion is made illegal: young girls go to back-alley quacks with coat-hangers.
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
What if your mother had thought about an abortion when she was pregnant with you? Aren't you glad that she didn't do it?
So why should you get a chance at life when some other unborn baby with every bit the same amount of potential in life as yourself ends up in a vacuum bottle?
You're right, lost life is a tragedy. Metaphysically speaking, I'd be pissed if I'd been aborted. But that choice is a family choice, a parent's (or parents') choice, not yours and not government's. And if the day comes when my daughter has to weigh that decision, I'll do whatever I can to convince her to have the child, but that choice will be made by her, not me, not you, and not the government. And if her mother and I aren't around or she chooses to make that decision without us, I sure as hell hope that SAFE abortion clinics are an option for her. I'm not much for prayer, but I pray that backward thinking, high-minded zealots like yourself never succeed in forcing teenage girls back into back-alley abortions.