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

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

The problem is that people think being "pro-life but" which is probably what I would describe myself as, means I do assumea higher moral ground than the pro-choice camp, or that I want control over their bodies. It's not higher moral ground- it's different mountains. And I usually get yelled at, told I am anti-feminist or a fundamentalist Christian- and that's before I've said anything else.

I often sum it up by saying that I think abortion is one of the the most horrible and wrong things there is, but forcing women to carry a child they don't want to term, not allowing them to control their own bodies and (as in the case of Miss X in Ireland) forcing underage rape victims to bear a child, or making women havedangerous and illegal medical procedures is one of the few things I can think of that is more wrong than abortion.