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In reply to the discussion: Contrary to popular opinion, DU is supposed to be for politically *liberal* people. Either that or [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)believes that their position is reasonable. What you don't seem to GET is that I am NOT against women's rights. If you can't understand that, then you apparently DON'T understand, period. This issue, for me, and for many liberals like me, is about the right to life. When you believe as we do, that life begins at conception, then the issue is not women's rights ONLY; it is also a matter of the right of the unborn to live.
You can disagree that life begins at conception. That's fine; and I do think that that issue might be debateable, at some future date when we have the technology to know for sure. But if you accept that my objection, like many others' objection, to abortion is a matter of a right to life of the unborn, then you can't frame it as a women's rights issue for us. It is simply NOT true.