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Showing Original Post only (View all)You can be personally opposed to abortion and fully support a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy [View all]
It's the right wing that rejects that formulation and wants to control people's minds and bodies. John Stuart Mill was correct "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
I believe in a culture of life from the womb to the tomb. This leads me to oppose abortion, the death penalty, and unjust wars, and support the dignity and well-being of an individual at every juncture of his or her life from conception to death. I could never serve on a jury where the death penalty is an option. If my counsel was sought I could never recommend a woman have an abortion except in the narrowest of circumstances. I could never support a war that doesn't comport to my concept of what is a just war.
However we live in a pluralistic society with individual rights and the right to do with one's body should be beyond the reach of the state.
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