anti-choice Democrats are the reason Nancy Pelosi was House Speaker in 2006 and 2008

[loyalsister]

37. It's as if the real argument is lost in the language

I suspect that there are people who would never sign the consent form for a abortion for their daughter would always advocate against it in conversation. Yet, they have a limit where abortion is an acceptable option (in other words, choice). If a person sees abortion as an acceptable uner particular conditions, and they aren't working to ban it altogether, their position isn't as cut and dry as I have thought for a long time. I think the subset of antiabortion zealots have roped in people who are less extreme. Thus, people who could have been more flexible in their opinions have been manipulated.

I am extreme rigid am inclined to argue against any opposition. But, as this internal conflict over abortion has exploded, I am not entirely averse to exploring gray areas and cutting people some slack even when I don't agree with them.

I once read an analysis where a woman agued that using choice and privacy as the basis for the argument in favor of legal abortion might have had the unintended consequences of perpetuating the argument. She suggested that in retorspect it might have put an end to it if the ruling were based on the 14th amendment. The only way to balance the inequality of the biological demands in pregnancy is to allow for termination. I thought she had a point, but of course hindsight is 20 20.