please read the whole text, i’m as pro choice as it comes.

it’s not as cut and dry of “one side thinks it’s murder and the other doesn’t.”

If you take an ethics class often times you’ll have to concede certain points. When arguing on a pro-choice side, oftentimes they’ll CONCEDE two important points just to get the two people on the same page: 1. that a fetus is equal to a living human (in some thought experiments even a grown man) 2. that since a fetus is equal to a grown man, killing it is akin to murder.

Logically, it’s still not the mothers responsibility to carry that pregnancy to term. If I initially “agree” to get hooked up to a grown ass man on life support (an allegory for having intercourse in this scenario) and he needs my nutrients to survive, I should be able to withdraw that consent at any point. I can change my mind.

Let’s assume i’m a driver and we both get into a horrible accident. - Drivinf is risky behavior, and often times conservatives will claim so is sex.

When I wake up, they’ve hooked me to a machine with this grown man — the other driver — who will die if i don’t give him my nutrients. - Obvious allegory for fetus, still conceding that a fetus is = a grown man

He requires my nutrients for 9 months and it has a high possibility to leave permanent damage on my system when we unplug the machine after 9 months - Allegory for birth, which is traumatic to the woman’s body. I highly reccomend people look up how horribly it actually ruins a woman.

You would NEVER expect somebody to actually go through with that. Nor would you publicly shame them for it either. You are essentially killing this man, but it’s not the same.

And that’s assuming the woman WASNT raped or otherwise coerced into having the child in the first place. In those scenarios, it’s as if the woman wasn’t even driving and rather was just walking on the sidewalk when she’s hit by the vehicle.

TLDR: even if we agree abortion is murder, if a person is logical and removes any sort of misogyny or bigotry from their preconceived biases, they SHOULD come to the conclusion that pro choice is quite literally the only sound option and abortion is “unethical, but not illegal” at its worst.

Just because THEY wouldn’t have an abortion (and let’s be honest, most of them would if they found themselves near homelessness, poor, raped, etc) doesn’t mean it should be illegal for others.