@neptuneblue,
neptuneblue wrote:
How can that be done when you REFUSE to reconcile anything? It's not like you "honor" my position on abortion. Or anything else. In fact you insist on trampling my rights and freedoms. How is that honorable in any way?
I recognize that you and many other people are concerned with what happens in the absence of safe, legal abortion.
As I have said, my concern is that the availability of safe, legal abortion has gone from being a way to reduce the practices of dangerous illegal abortion and/or murder of pregnant women to becoming part of a culture of sexual liberalism that doesn't even consider abstinence as something that should be prescribed at all.
Abstinence isn't a 'choice' any more than sobriety when operating a machine is a choice. It is a duty to take every possible precaution against pregnancy risk, including abstinence, not a 'choice.'
I think you assume too much superficiality by just boiling people's perspectives down to whether they are pro-life or pro-choice. As I said, I was pro-choice until so many women argued with me about how abortion shouldn't be legal and I finally started listening to them over the official Democrat dogmas about choice as a 'right.'
Do you know people sentenced to the death penalty now have the 'right' to 'choose' between different methods of execution? Should the fact that they have that 'choice' stop us from questioning the conditions that led up to them committing murders and getting sentenced to death in the first place? Just calling something 'choice' or a 'right' shouldn't hide the deeper issues.