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CMV: Being pro life shouldn’t be viewed as bad or offensive: pretty much any stance on the spectrum is reasonable if it is supported for the right reason.

Are there people who are pro life for sexist reasons? Sure. But a lot of people who are pro life have reasonable reasons to have that standpoint. for the record, I am pro choice, although to be honest I’m not fixed on this just like how I’m not fixed on any political belief. 

Just to be clear, when I refer to the spectrum I mean being pro life or choice to a certain extent: for example supporting abortions under certain circumstances such as rape or endangerment of the mother and/or child. Pretty much any stance has some reasonable backing for it and should not be treated as offensive like a lot of people do. 

Why do I think this? Well, it comes down to balancing the rights of the child and the mother. Some would say that killing is always wrong, and this is often associated with religion. This is a hard viewpoint to change. Then there are some people who believe that only in certain scenarios should abortion be allowed. The basis of this can be explained like a balance. At what point does the right of the fetus to live out weigh the right of the mother to choose? If the mother is in danger it makes sense to allow an abortion. If they were raped, they in no way chose to have a child and were pretty much forced to. But you could argue that if their excuse was just that they didn’t mean to even though they had unprotected sex with no birth control, then they shouldn’t just be able to end the fetus’s life because they regret their previous actions. Some people value the lives of a fetus differently, and this should introduce respectful arguments, not accusing people of being sexist or being terrible people and basically ignoring what they say on the basis of them being bigots. 

This brings me to a smaller point, that if you want to change somebody’s mind, ostracizing them isn’t how you do it. Especially millennials tend to do this a lot. They assume anybody who has a certain viewpoint (like being pro life) is this terrible person who deserves no respect. If you act that way, not only is it wrong imo but also it prevents you from being able to change their minds. This is the problem with so many issues but it definitely applies to abortion. 

Anyway, that’s my view: people value the life of a fetus differently and as a result aren’t necessarily wrong or bad just because they come to a different conclusion on the acceptability of abortion.

Edit 3: I think I need to get rid of both of my edits and say that my view went sort of like this: at first I was what I said above, then somebody convinced me that being strictly pro life, and then I started just feeling like a piece of shit being devil’s advocate but I think that’s because this CMV became people attacking the belief and expecting me to defend it when I didn’t hold it… the point is that somebody who is pro life fundamentally believes that a fetus is a human, and that an abortion is murder. And if that’s what they believe that’s not only not “evil”, but also from their moral standpoint the exact right thing to do. People listing examples like setting restrictions or creating fake clinics so that people will delay so that it is too late - in their minds they’re doing the right thing. Does that make them bad people? I really don’t think so. And even if you see a fetus as a life, you can still say that very early on it’s just a clump of cells, while later on it can become valued as a person. As such, you might say if the mother will die you can abort any time, if it was rape you could abort a bit later, but if nothing happened then you could be very limited to before the point where a fetus could be considered a living thing with feelings. And from the religious standpoint, thinking that abortion is killing a fetus no matter when it happens is perfectly reasonable because you believe that babies have souls. Morally, based on their understanding of the world, they’re right. So, based on what I’ve read so far, I hold that judging somebody just based on their beliefs still shouldn’t be done.
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If we're granting that a fetus is a human life, why does it matter if the mother was raped in order to conceive it? If the fetus might kill her that's a separate issue. But why make exceptions for rape?