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Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
I was just stating how I would react if I were FORCED to vote and the side I voted for lost.
It's not forcing opinion? your opinion is that prochoice is the preferred option over prolife, and that you would vote on it. You would be expressing your opinion. And, when and if the prochoicers won the vote, you would be forcing your prochoice opinion on the prolifers. If you are going to continue to ask me to admit that by voting prolife I am forcing my views on others, it's only fair that you do the same.
Are you challenged? Do you HONESTLY not grasp the explanations of the pro-choice side given to you? Or are you ignoring them?
Pro-choicers are not forcing opinions on pro-lifers. Pro-lifers won't want abortions, will they? No. So why do you need to ban abortion then? Would you vote to ban all the programmes you don't like, but never watch? Of course you wouldn't.
We're not trying to make pro-lifers have abortions. I'd protect their right NOT to want one if I had to. The point of the pro-choice argument, and its difference to the pro-life argument, is as follows, please pay attention this time:
Voting to ban abortion, due to being pro-life, is forcing your beliefs. How? Because you are attempting to REMOVE a choice, a right to choose one of two options, because YOU dislike it.
Voting pro-choice is voting for nothing more than the woman's right to keep the second option. We're not trying to force women to do or NOT do anything, you are. We're trying to secure the second option; whether or not a woman uses it is up to her. Pro-lifers will not, and that's fine, even some non-pro-lifers might not want abortion, but the point of pro-choice is to make sure it's there IN CASE she wants it.
We are not taking away anything, nor are we imposing anything. We're not removing pro-lifers rights, you still have the right to dislike abortion, and abortion being legal will not stop pro-lifers doing things THEIR way (I.e; keeping the child.). The point is, there needs to be two options, so the woman can choose.
You are proposing that we are forcing our beliefs on men like you who are pro-life, just by disagreeing with your stance, which is the very peak of retardation. WHAT are we forcing pro-lifers to do, RJ? You tell me how, by voting for a woman to have an additional choice, we are forcing our beliefs on you.
Abortions will happen, legally or not. If you're so pro-life, you would want them to be acted out safely, rather than a foetus being killed, and a fully grown human woman abusing herself in dangerous ways to get the job done, but you don't, because you're not necessarily pro-life, are you? You're pro-foetus/pro-child.
You protect the foetuses "rights", but when that foetus becomes a child, then a grown female, who may want an abortion herself, you would oppress the very former-foetus who's rights you fought so hard for.
I noticed you said "Now I think about it...". Yes, maybe you should imploy this "thinking" more often. Perhaps and preferably before you're 80 posts into an argument where everyone is taking you apart.
-AC