I feel like I have to rehash this constantly

[virginia_fell]

I'd just like to say super-quickly that being pro-choice or anti-choice has nothing to do with being pro-abortion or anti-abortion.

Most of the people I know who are pro-choice are personally anti-abortion. However, that's their personal decision, and they respect the right of women to make a different one, even if they disagree

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[admnaismith]

Thank you. Seems to me, when every child born is actually wanted and loved, we'll all be better off.

I always considered the only "pro-abortion" people I'd heard of were the Chinese Government, which is so pro-abortion that they make women have abortions whether they want them or not. Sure does distinguish the issue from that of choice, doesn't it?

[_jeremiad]

Sounds perfectly clear to me.

As someone who's worked with abused, neglected, and violated children, I'd much rather the option of abortion is available for people who know full well they don't want to raise a child.

[veronica_rich]

Works in reverse for anti-choice. Those people usually get offended when I call them anti-choice, but I point out what you say about personal abortion preference (and even throw in the bio vs. adopted kids thing once in a while). Being pro-fetus doesn't mean you're pro-life, especially since a lot of these people are pro-death penalty and pro-war. (For the record, I do not oppose the death penalty in ironclad-proven cases; nor am I a pacifist. There are times war is necessary - just not as damn much as this country has used it in the past 60 years.)

[a_tergo_lupi]

I hate when people say "I'm pro-choice politically, but pro-life personally." No. You're pro-choice and you think you would choose not to have an abortion. So obnoxious. It just sounds to me like they're saying they know you're going to hell, but they'd vote to put in a water fountain if they had the option.

Wut?

Stupid. Almost as stupid as people who are anti-choice saying that they chose not to abort. No. You don't think it's a choice, so you couldn't possibly have made one.

[safenthecity]

Pretty much how I feel about the issue.