Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 10:43 AM EST

So what if abortion ends life?I believe that life starts at conception. And it's never stopped me from being pro-choice

“Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word ‘life.’ Life! Who wants to argue with that? Who wants be on the side of … not-life? That’s why the language of those who support abortion has for so long been carefully couched in other terms. While opponents of abortion eagerly describe themselves as ‘pro-life,’ the rest of us have had to scramble around with not nearly as big-ticket words like ‘choice’ and ‘reproductive freedom.’ The ‘life’ conversation is often too thorny to even broach. Yet I know that throughout my own pregnancies, I never wavered for a moment in the belief that I was carrying a human life inside of me. I believe that’s what a fetus is: a human life. And that doesn’t make me one iota less solidly pro-choice….

“Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. … a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.”

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 10:43 AM EST

So what if abortion ends life?I believe that life starts at conception. And it's never stopped me from being pro-choice

“… The majority of women who have abortions – and one in three American women will – are already mothers. And I can say anecdotally that I’m a mom who loved the lives she incubated …, and is also now well over 40 and in an experimental drug trial. If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet … I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion.

“In an Op-Ed on ‘Why I’m Pro-Choice’ in the Michigan Daily this week, Emma Maniere stated, quite perfectly, that ‘Some argue that abortion takes lives, but I know that abortion saves lives, too.’ She understands that it saves lives not just in the most medically literal way, but in the roads that women who have choice then get to go down, in the possibilities for them and for their families. And I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus every single time — even if I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/so_what_if_abortion_ends_life/

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