Before my wife became pregnant and we propagated, I had purely pro-abortion views. Like condoms and IUD, abortion was a contraception method and there was absolutely nothing wrong about it. Anti-abortionists were religious nuts (mostly males and occasionally older females) who wanted to impose their Middle Age religious nut views and male patriarchy on otherwise secular modern society. It was a fight of good versus evil.
After two Yvonne’s pregnancies, development of embryos, childbirths, etc… I underwent a slow transformation from naturally pro-abortion to an uncomfortably pro-choice stance.
Unlike in the past, I definitely feel uncomfortable about abortion. Instead of treating it as a contraception method, I feel that abortion a smaller evil to be avoided if possible. If a pregnant woman decides to have an abortion, it’s her absolute right. But then euthanasia or killing in self-defense is also a person’s right. These are painful rights that I would rather not exercise unless the other options are even worse.
While I personally have a determined pro-abortion stance, I no longer consider all anti-abortionists to necessarily be evil religious nuts. I strongly disagree with their views, but then I strongly disagree with many other people’s views, from Trump and Bernie Sanders supporters to the anti-euthanasia lobby. However, I respect a lot of these people and I won’t dismiss them as loons or criminals. I am also aware that women make almost half of anti-abortionists.
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