Abortion: Where do you stand? (Please vote, even if it's not a high priority for you.)

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18. Given

that there was someone who is "anti-choice/pro-life", I didn't want to be hostile. Somehow, we have to share the planet.

If someone who is pro-life makes it his or her life's work to match up pregnant women to loving want-to-be parents, I respect that. Especially if the pregnant woman is pro-life, but isn't in a position to raise the child.

If someone who is pro-life makes it his or her life's work to secure birth control and family planning education for our nation's young people, because s/he understands that there is a direct correlation between increased sex education and reduced abortion rates, I respect that.

If a pro-life person can "hate the sin but not the sinner", and choose not to harrass women who have abortions, but reach out to help those who don't want one, I respect that.

There are positive ways to be pro-life. And there are some pro-choice people who hate abortion. They just aren't going to take away a woman's right to choose it.

It's not so black and white. I reserve my "hate" for those who can't see any way but their way, and are going to shame, legislate and coerce women into bad situations, especially where they look for illegal and dangerous means to end their pregnancies.

I've had two abortions, and I defend any woman's right to choose. I am pro-abortion and think it should be the first choice for anyone under 18, or in college, or jobless. But that's just me.