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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Mitchel just stopped a guest who ID'd herself as "pro-life"... [View all]SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)I'm pro-abortion and pro-choice. I agree with Sister Simone Campbell: "Abortion is a blessing to women who need it." It is almost always sad that any women should need an abortion, just like it is always sad that any women should need a mastectomy. However, mastectomies and abortions are important and often life-saving medical procedures. I am "pro" any legal medical procedure a woman chooses to have performed on her own body that improves her quality of life.
I do not aspire to a mastectomy or an abortion; no women does. And of course women must not be forced to have an abortion or mastectomy. Nor can we ever force women to give birth. Yet that is exactly what anti-choicers seek by outlawing abortion. The irony is they would not be ending abortion, just safe legal abortions. And they would be causing a lot more death, not life.