How have your views on abortion changed over the years?

[TDAS04]

Option 1 for me.  When I was in high school, I favored outlawing it in most cases.

[America Needs R'hllor]

No, not since I started caring about it. Was always staunchly pro-choice.

[Antonio the Sixth]

No change, though I've gained a better understanding of where the "other side" is coming from.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I've been 100% pro-life without exceptions since the first time I heard of the issue and have always viewed it as my #1 priority.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Abortion seemed like a terrible idea when I first heard of it when I was 7 or so. But then I realized the necessity.

[Xing]

I view abortion itself more negatively than I used to, but my feelings on the legal status of it haven't changed.

[I’m not Stu]

No change.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

100% pro-life (2008-2010)
"leave it to the states" + no federal funding (2011-2012)
100% pro-choice, morally opposed (2012-present)

[SATW]

more pro-life then in 2008 or so.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

No change, though I've gained a better understanding of where the "other side" is coming from.

This.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I view abortion itself more negatively than I used to, but my feelings on the legal status of it haven't changed.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Way more pro-choice.

[nclib]

More pro-choice. I was never against it, but now more realize how important it is for women and women's equality.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Was pro-choice until around the age of 17/18.

EDIT: To further clarify my shift in values, I was a politically apathetic progressive (didn't quite click with everything), until I was 17 (e.g. I supported Rudd for PM in 2007). I wasn't a serious pro-lifer (when I was 17/18, I identified with the pro-life movement, but wasn't all serious about it) until around the age of 19 though, when I read stories from the likes of Melissa Ohden and Gianna Jessen, abortion survivors.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I've always been very pro-choice.  Not much has changed other than that I'm increasingly skeptical of government involvement in people's lives in general.  Which I guess makes me "more pro-choice."

Oh, and runaway population growth is also something that's very worrying to me now.  But you can't talk about stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable now.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I've always thought that the best anti-abortion arguments are coherent and fairly simple, but the moral intuitions that underlie them have always been inscrutable to me.

Aren't all moral intuitions necessarily either self-evident (if you share them) or inscrutable (if you don't)? That's all the problem with them.

[RFayette]

I've always thought that the best anti-abortion arguments are coherent and fairly simple, but the moral intuitions that underlie them have always been inscrutable to me.

Aren't all moral intuitions necessarily either self-evident (if you share them) or inscrutable (if you don't)? That's all the problem with them.

Same.  I perfectly understand the logic behind pro-choice arguments, but I nonetheless find them abhorrent.  Our moral compass is what guides us on these types of issues moreso than anything else.

[P123]

we should have abortion ONLY in any state that voted for Clinton.

call me back in 2028 GOP landslide.

[afleitch]

More pro-choice due to women I've met in my life.

[Torie]

No change since college. Tight restrictions for late term abortions. Otherwise, I favored legalization.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Much more willing to ~legislate morality~ but no change to my moral intuitions. My previous post to this effect was, perhaps rightfully, deleted because of an intemperate remark about our R-HI friend here, whose own post I'll note is intact.

[Young Conservative]

I've always been ProLife and I Lways will be ProLife because all life is precious.

[Lachi]

Always Pro choice, like most Australians are.

[President Johnson]

No. Have always been pro-choice. (but opposed to late-term abortion after fourth month).

[DC Al Fine]

Much more willing to ~legislate morality~ but no change to my moral intuitions.

Me too. I bought into that 'you can't legislate morality man!' nonsense a bit in high school and college, so I had some vague convoluted idea of treating abortion like a misdemeanor or something.