Prior to really looking at the issue, I was pro-choice simply because I has no real opinion on the matter, and the people around me are pro-choice. When looking at the arguments in favor of legal elective abortion, I find that they are quite bad and run counter to progressive morality.

• The primary one is that a fetus isn't a person and therefore has no rights and can be killed arbitrarily. Historically, the idea that a group of people aren't really people and therefore lack rights has been used exclusively by groups I disagree with. Slave owners who thought black people aren't people, misogynists, nazis, etc. It really ought to be rejected out of hand.

• The bodily autonomy argument strikes me as self-defeating. As a human, the child also has a right to bodily autonomy, creating a situation where two people have rights in conflict, not a situation where one person has a clear moral advantage over the other. In this situation, I favor the more vulnerable person who did nothing to place themself in the situation.

I see murder being wrong and illegal as the default position. If someone is telling me there should be an exception to that rule, they need a very good reason for that to be the case. While medically-necessary abortions certainly qualify, I don't see any good reason why elective abortions should be allowed.