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human
CMV: To oppose abortion access legality is to devalue women as lesser than fetuses which is insulting.

Whether either side wants to admit it, supporting abortion legality is supporting women *at the expense of fetuses*, and opposing abortion legality is supporting fetuses *at the expense of women.*

Therefore it's woman versus fetus: whose rights matter most.

For me, a woman, a person who sees and interacts with other women on a daily basis, but who has never interacted with a fetus, as someone who knows firsthand how insanely extreme your body and hormones change from pregnancy and how all consuming the process is, as someone who knows the financial loss and job instability pregnant women face, as someone who believes bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right that all people have (whether recognized or not), and as someone who understands the unique horror of being trapped inside your body with a pregnancy that you have to carry to term against your will, there is no possible way in my mind that a developing fetus that doesn't know it exists and wont know when it doesn't exist should "win" the battle of abortion over women. 

To believe the opposite and choose fetuses over women is to value that developing and unaware life over the existing life of women, thus devaluing women as less important than a fetus, which is incredibly insulting to me. A woman has an existing life, she has thoughts and desires, a fully formed body that exists on its own, she may have a job, an education, friends, family, she votes, she has a favorite food and a favorite show.... A fetus is a developing human made of cells still dividing and creating the human body, organs, brain, nervous system, etc. It doesn't know it exists and won't know when it doesn't exist anymore, it has never met people or formed bonds, it has no desires or opinions, it doesn't yet have its own body that can survive on planet earth. If you had to pick one of those at the expense of the other, and chose to protect the fetus over the woman, then you obviously view women as lesser in value than fetuses, which as I said is insulting.

To CMV you will have to prove how opposing abortion access is not valuing women less than one values fetuses. Attempting to say I was wrong in my wordy descriptions of fetuses and women above (like saying "well what if the woman doesn't have friends or a job, what then?) will not CMV.
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Term definitions so nobody dives off the deep end...

Legal abortion: one performed by a doctor on a consenting women within the first or second trimester of pregnancy.

Pro-choice: one who supports access to legal abortions, regardless of how he or she personally feels about abortion.

Pro-life: one who opposes legal access to abortion.

Apologies to the mods and regulars who get nauseous and bored to death at just seeing the word abortion. ;-)
gpt
I think there are two obvious faults with this.

First, it ignores the possibility of placing EQUAL value on the lives of two people (assume, for the sake of discussion, that a pro-life person is pro-life because they believe a fetus is a person); you're saying that wanting to protect one life makes it MORE important than another, when it really could as easily mean you just consider it AS important.

But second, and more importantly, the "rights" in question are not the same. It's not as if a pro-lifer (usually) wants to KILL the mother in order that the fetus might live. The right of one person to live overrides the right of another person to not be pregnant for nine months. It's like saying "People have the right to own their clothing. So if a man is bleeding to death on the street, and someone takes clothing from another person by force to stop the flow and save their life, they value the bleeding person more than the person that lost clothing". Not necessarily; they're just willing to violate one right to protect another, more important right.