if I were a rhetorical question, I would look like this

[the_siobhan]

Is it possible for somebody who is pro-life and somebody who is pro-choice to be friends?

Is it simply a matter of difference of opinion? Or is it more than that? Is there an underlying difference in values that makes it impossible to be friends?

What do you think?


What I'm listening to right this second: Stromkern

Comments

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

you don't sound very pro-choice to me when it comes to choices other than abortion. are you sure that's how you want to come across?
I hope you have read my other comments in this post where I say that pro-choice means that you have the choice to have an abortion, a child, ten children, not that third child, etc etc.

a fetus may not be a person, but it's a human life
As I've said elsewhere, this is a fundamental difference in opinion, and will shape how you feel about every other part of the discussion. I don't think it is a human life, so that makes things very distinct for me, in the oppostie direction.

i am also pro-assisted suicide
As am I. Interesting that didn't really come up here, but totally could have.

i don't want to be under the same umbrella with those wingers who really just want to control people's sex lives
That's pretty much what it boils down to. The anti-choice camp isn't really about the babies, or they'd be reforming welfare, education, healcare, etc etc (as you mention). They want to control women's reproductive choices, whittling them down to nothing.