Are you pro choice or pro life?

[Anonymous]

It seems like everyone is divided and you see people marching in the streets. How can a decision be leaked in the highest court? Shouldn't a woman be able to decide what happens to her own body? How can other people tell you what you can and can't do? What other restrictions and rights are going next?

I'm pro choice!

I'm pro life!

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[nightdrot]

Voted "Pro-Life."

The British statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do as they please. We ought see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations." Therein lay the problem with laws that permit abortion on demand.

A society that premises its law as "Choice"- to use the locution of abortion rights advocates - effectively leaves open the question of the value of human life. It becomes not a standing principle, but a subjective judgment to each individual. In such a society, human life becomes not an end in itself, but mere instrument. Life becomes not an object whose preservation is the highest standard, but rather a convenience to be maintained or not according to the satisfaction of another's will.

We shape our laws and then our laws shape us - see also the civil rights laws of the 1960s which have effected a revolution in race relations. (The idea that a black man and a white man cannot sit together at the same lunch counter is as alien to this generation as Neptune. Yet in 1965 it was pretty much the norm.)

Inherent then in the pro-choice argument is the idea that life has no value save that which each person chooses to attach to it. It denies society any authority to make a collective judgment on such questions. Therefore, in this view, the law may not afford protection to life except at some arbitrarily defined (and inherently subjective) point.

This then conduces to an assertion of power over rights. Life is maintained not as its own end, but according to the will of the person who, effectively, controls it because they can. An ethic of convenience is established and it is a slippery slope on which to build a culture and a legal edifice.

Such a society will not value life that sees life as not an end, but as a means to some other end. Indeed, that is why at about the same time as the culture began to shift on the abortion question we also saw a rise in child abuse, spousal abuse, divorce, out of wedlock births and other social pathologies. These were not unrelated phenomena.

Aristotle said that the first questions of politics are, "How ought we to live? What kind of a people do we wish to be?" The implicit answer of those who support abortion on demand is, in effect, that it is nobody's business. Predictable results follow. One cannot expect the society to absent itself from collective moral judgments on the value of life and then expect an ethical social order to result.

[ManHater]

If women kept there legs closed we would not need abortions.

[Agape93]

If men stopped fucking us, pregnancy wouldn't even occur to make abortion a necessity. Keep your pants on.

[ManHater]

@Agape93 We should have kids and see how they turn out.

[Agape93]

Even I'm not that fucked up

[ManHater]

@Agape93 hahaha

[just_a_potato]

When it comes to other women? I'm extremely pro choice. I don't have to think about abortions for myself as I'm not having traditional sex. 😌

[Asker]

That's good and it's nice to see you again.

[just_a_potato]

Thank you! Too bad I don't know who you are

[Asker]

You're welcome. I'm just anon on this because of controversy. I can add if you if you want. I know you took a break for a while and then came back. I hope things are ok for you.

[just_a_potato]

Aww how sweet I didn't think anyone noticed to be frank. Yeah you can add me, I like having friends 😂

[Anonymous]

whatever. I don't care.

[matchrestore]

I'm very pro choice. I do pro-bono work for a nonprofit that helps cover travel, lodging, and childcare expenses for women in my state who are seeking abortion care and I also have been a volunteer escort at my state's only abortion clinic. Her body her choice.

[DWornock]

It is not that I am pro life or pro choice. Instead, I am pro freedom and I oppose slavery. I trust in natural selection; I do not trust government. We have naturally evolved so that parents are by far the best protectors of children. Good parents pass their genes to future generation; bad parent, not so much so their genes become extinct after a hundred generations. Ultimately, whenever the government is involved, to solve an occasional bad situation, they make small problem into big problems.

[NorthwestRider]

Pro choice because I find it silly to have meltdowns over nonsense cultural wars. Plus it is none of my business

[Anonymous]

I use to be pro-choice but after thinking about it for a while I became pro-life. Murder is murder.

[Agape93]

Pro choice, no restrictions.

[lofii]

Pro life

You chose to have sex. Own up to it.

[Anonymous]

I used to be pro-life but after thinking about it for a while I became pro-choice. Choice is choice.

[MzAsh]

Pro choice

[BCRanger10]

I'm very strongly against abortion. I am pro-life.

[KrakenAttackin]

The girls just wanna kill babies.