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

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I admit that in a couple of cases I've cautiously asked as to whether or not it's good news when I couldn't tell from the way the pregnant person told me. I don't want to offer congratulations to somebody when they think it's the worst thing that could have happened. Or sympathy when they think it's the best.

But yeah, people do ask incredibly intrusive questions sometimes. For some reason that tendancy seems to get so much worse around pregnancy. (And let's not even go into the inappropriate touching.)

[nachtisch.livejournal.com]

I admit that in a couple of cases I've cautiously asked as to whether or not it's good news when I couldn't tell from the way the pregnant person told me.

That appears to be the most effective way to go. I'm on a msg board where there are announcements like that all the time. There's often a period of sussing out the person's decision before offering congratulations or support or both. In any event, yeah, good policy.