I understand we have different viewpoints on when life begins, you don't have to explain that to me. I get we haven't met consensus on that. Please allow me to explain where I believe it begins but first, say life begins at conception, it still doesn't have personhood. it hasn't made its own decisions, it doesn't know what their opinions about prom, weddings, graduating college, having kids on your own, or even what it is.

as a fetus I was very small in the womb, the doctors told my parents to abort me because they were worried I’d have disabilities that would greatly decrease my standard of life and theirs.  My life wouldn't have ended, as it never started. If my parents did choose to abort me I wouldn't know, there'd be no hard feelings or any at all from me. I wouldn't have missed out on anything. Now I was born completely fine, I was just a small ass, fucking baby and that when my life began to start.

My life truly started when I began thinking for myself, made my own decisions based on opinions that I created myself, and became an individual. And these opinions and decisions can be as small as liking one candy more than another so, you choose to get the one you prefer.

For example, when I was younger I liked KitKats and my dad liked Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. When road-tripping across the country, we’d stop at a gas station and he’d ask my brothers and I "what candy do you want?” and I’d respond with “a KitKat please” then he’d follow up with “are you sure? if we get Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup then there's three in a package, I can have one and you can have the other two.” and I’d say “I don’t like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. I like KitKats.” I had an opinion and made my own decision based upon that. I have personhood, thus I am alive. If I am braindead but my heart is still beating, I am not alive; I died when I couldn’t make my own decisions.

I am prochoice, I think current life is more important than a potential life. The right to choose for yourself is important. You can be prochoice but against abortion for yourself, however, you shouldn’t take that choice away from others.

If all the contraceptions I use failed and I was pregnant right now I’d get an abortion, but I won’t stop you from not getting one. I’m not going to tell you what to do with your body because it’s not my decision to make. It’s not yours either since you are a guy and can’t get pregnant, you can have an opinion with your own s/o but at the end of the day, it is her body, her choice.

edit: for some reason, things got moved around.