re: #93 eclectic infidel

It’s quite fair - the criminalizing of abortion would permit the state to dictate how a woman can control her body. People who want abortion outlawed are in favor of this by default, but I’ve yet to hear such “pro-lifers” admit it but who knows, maybe the pro-birthers out there will surprise me.

If you believe that a fetus or an embryo is a human being vested with the same rights as a human baby that has been born, outlawing abortion is not about limiting a woman’s right to control her body so much as it is about protecting a human life from being destroyed. Why is it so hard for people to understand how people can believe something different than they do without demonizing them for having such beliefs are ascribing to them evil motives?

As I have mentioned, I am very pro-choice… but I also understand why people are pro-life and do not demonize those who believe that way and accuse them of hating women (unless they deserve it). Being pro-life does not equal being anti-woman and wanting to control women.