Abortion

[TJ in Oregon]

That's why abortion should be legal. There's no definitive truth to when life begins, it's totally up to interpretation. One person can't legislate their subjective beliefs over another when not everyone believes in the truth they campaign for.

If you want to take the "we don't know which side is right and wrong" approach in this case there is a tremendous disparity in the consequences of each outcome; if it's not a person then outlawing it is forcing a woman to endure nine months of labor, but if it is a person then we're murdering 800,000 people a year.

[TJ in Oregon]

Guys... it isn't all disputable that a fetus is alive. Anyone with a vague understanding of life science can agree on that. Now, whether or not that life is a human life can be disputed (what is a "human"?).

Actually I think the ideological construction of oppose abortion with a rape exception is more problematic than banning it altogether in terms of how women should interpret it if that is your actual policy goal rather than a position taken out of political expedience because if you acknowledge abortion is killing a person then you can't really want a rape exception. If abortion isn't killing a person, then why would you want it to be illegal? In our political arena it comes across the opposite way because the Democrats have found harnessing the fear of being raped to gather female votes (not that a handful of Republicans like Akin have tried very hard to make this difficult for them).