& for all we know, people voted that way because they honestly believe that we should legally allow mothers to kill their born children.
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I think you said “name one prochoicer who —- “. This was my one prochoicer 😂
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18% of people who took this poll voted “yes”. It’s not just him.
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I'm willing to steelman this thing if yall are down for lots of twitter words
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Uh, "try to give the strongest possible argument for". Opposite of 'strawman.'
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OK cool!
So before I start I want to make it clear that I'm pretty sympathetic to the pro-life position, in general. I don't think yall are insane, or women-haters, or against rights. I myself used to protest abortion clinics. I think your viewpoint absolutely makes sense if-
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you follow certain assumptions. I don't want to come across as disrespecting your position. I'm going to present my (or a steelman of this) position not as an attack on you, but rather as an example of what happens if you tweak base assumptions that are *also* equally reasonable
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So, pro-life often operates on the base of "ending a human life is wrong." This makes sense and is very useful for most things. Ofc we have exceptions - war, self defense. Maybe you're ok with euthanasia? capital punishment? The law isn't absolute. I know there's good reasons
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for the exceptions, but my point here is just that the 'rule' *requires* exceptions in order to function.
Human life is also a kind of weird boundary. Even when I was super pro-life I felt some kind of intuitive stretch when identifying "life at conception" as a human.
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and I have a lot of respect for many prochoicers & never refer to women who have abortions as “murderers” or think any less of them as people. I believe abortion (the act) is evil, not people who commit the act. I just want all unborn babies & women safe.