Definitions are powerful.
Prolife people tend to define the unborn fetus as the most innocent, a human being that has the right to life just like the rest of us.
Pro-choice people tend to define the unborn fetus as a clump of cells in a woman's body that has no more rights than the woman's appendix.
If you want to understand both sides of the issue, look at the issue through the prism of both those definitions.
the people who are anti-choice are not pro life. that is a misnomer. they are pro birth. if that weren't the case, they would support women who were having children -- help them get educated, job trained, provide day care, food assistance if necessary. but the same people who say they're "pro-life" are the first to throw women to the wolves and condemn their children to hunger.
people who are pro choice want government out of our personal decisions. roe v wade was the compromise.
One major reason for choosing abortion is to avoid the responsibility of raising a child.
Still, I am not sure why you quoted my post....it seems that you view the pre-born as a clump of cells not deserving of legal protection.
That being said, I know lots of pro choice people that have adopted children (some with special needs), served as foster parents, give to local food banks, and do volunteer work for all sorts of people.
the term "pre-born" has no basis in science. it exists only as a propaganda tool.
that "clump of cells" is, in fact, a clump of cells until it isn't. that is why roe v wade acknowledge that life exists on a continuum.
mostly, it's no one else's decision but the person who will have to
I quoted your post because it mischaracterizes pro choice belief and is aggrandizing of anti-choice activists.
the sole issue is not your preference... it is when the interests of government become greater than the interests of the person whose body is involved.
btw, if you cared about pregnant women, you'd support easy access to contraceptives and to sex education for young people
but anti-choices don't believe in those things. they just want to "punish the harlots"