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sodium-chloride posted...

Questions for pro-lifers: how would your life change if abortions were 100% legal? Would you actively go out and prevent women from obtaining them? Would you go out on the streets and protest? How would your life be affected?

What happens if all of a sudden abortion is illegal across the country? Is it preferable to live in a world with significantly more children growing up in bad/poor homes or in the foster system? Where some women have to experience something that was forced upon them (rape)?

It's a matter of perspective. To a pro-life person all human life is sacred with, at most, EXTREMELY few exceptions. So an abortion is, effectively, state-sanctioned murder. And to top it off it's being done not for health reasons or the like, but because a woman was irresponsible and now wants an 'easy out' so she can resume living a care-free life by killing the child and likely doing so again and again. It's not a question of 'women's right to her own body' or whatever else. It's about dealing with irresponsible women living irresponsible lives and making unborn children pay the price.

If you talk to them you'll find the majority are okay with it when there's health issues (or at least understanding of why someone would want one). A lesser, but still decent, amount would also be understanding in cases of rape and/or incest (and it's really messed up that there's an 'and' there). But they don't see the pro-choice arguments it that way. They see it as some girl going out and partying wildly, getting drunk, doing drugs, having unprotected sex, and everything else than murdering the resulting child instead of, say, reforming their lives or giving it up for adoption or anything else. So approving of it is like approving of both hedonistic lifestyles and child murder. You won't ever budge them on that either because doing so means they either have to accept that human life isn't sacred, which is not happening (especially since many of them are religious), or that the fetus isn't human, which is extremely difficult at best because even if you believe it isn't human there's no denying it will become human several months down the line.

This is why it's a fruitless battle. Pro-life see it as approving of state-sanctioned murder and irresponsible living. Pro-choice see it as defending a woman's right to her own body and so-forth. Neither side is really willing to condemn the extremists on their own side and both have adopted an 'all-or-nothing' attitude regarding the subject.