How Democrats Can Win the Abortion Argument [View All]

[c-macdonald]

This is a great article by Planned Parenthood:
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ABORTION/5ways.html

We need to get over the fact that anti-abortionists call themselves Pro-Life. We can all agree that abortion isn't "right" because I don't know anyone who would wish an abortion on anyone else - we all inherently believe something is "not right" about abortion.

We've been arguing that "life doesn't begin at conception" but that's only arguing on their terms. We can talk about "protecting a woman's right to choose" but again that's an argument they can win by bringing up phrases like "murder" and "killing babies" - also, the numbers are on their side. Over 1,000,000 abortions are performed each year (or as they say, "babies are killed") - how can we say that number is a good thing for America?

So here's the change: instead of arguing about the "rightness or wrongnes" of abortion, instead talk about the number of unwanted pregnancies. There are OVER 3 MILLION UNWANTED PREGNANCIES every single year - almost HALF OF ALL PREGNANCIES!! That's where we need to step in and talk about how we are "Pro-Life" because we value the lives of children and we want to make sure that no unwanted child is brought into this world - and the way to do that is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. If we can decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies, we can decrease the number of abortions.

That way we change it from "Pro-Life" vs "Pro-Choice" to something different...I'm not sure what terms to use.

Any ideas?