ext_17636 ([identity profile] box-in-the-box.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-09-01 10:22 pm (UTC)

See my response here. (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/1144626.html?thread=91077170#t91077170) I don't profess to know when "personhood" begins, but I do know that a fetus is part of a woman's body, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because this decision shouldn't be in the hands of anyone other than them whose bodies these fetuses are growing inside. To do otherwise necessarily requires ALL of us to adopt ONE standard on this, which is NOT forthcoming.

Or, to put it another way, whether fetuses are people is a question mark, but whether women are people whose lives are going to be irreversibly altered by being forced to bear children is NOT a question mark. Guess which side I side with.

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