# Abortion: Why don't pro-choicers just say, "It kills a person, but it's a unique circumstance?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 30, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-why-dont-pro-choicers-just-say-it-kills-a-person-but-its-a-unique-circumstance/847228 "2020-01-30T16:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 208
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-why-dont-pro-choicers-just-say-it-kills-a-person-but-its-a-unique-circumstance/847228/208 "2020-02-07T12:49:11Z")
I hope you know I am playing devil’s advocate in this line, though it was similar to viewpoints I once held. > [@Voyager](#): > > IIRC John Kerry, being a good Catholic, said that he personally was against abortion but did not want to impose his religious views on others. I’d hardly call that a pro-abortion position. Why not? He supports a society that permits abortion. What would you call this position? > [@](#): > > I assume by child you mean fetus, You by even having to make this assumption demonstrate you don’t understand the disconnect between the 2 sides. To many who are pro-life the fetus is a child, it is a person and is alive. There is no potential person, and that term makes no sense. Child being used for a fetus is automatically understandable. Pro-life is all about the child, and protecting it’s right to live from the deception that it is just a clump of cells that can be scrapped away and try to deceive the mother into murder of her child, greatly harming the mother as well (as she murdered her child). If you can’t understand that, i’ll give this back to ya: > [@](#): > > …I’ll wait until you have an intelligent response Which sort of fits, though I would have to reword it a bit to be a better fit. > [@](#): > > since no one doubts that once a child is born it is a person. If you say that abortion should be a crime, that sounds like anti-choice to me. Again you are not realizing that both sides come at this issue from different perspectives. Until you do, and until you can intelligently talk to either side from their own perspective you will just be babbling in the wind over things you don’t understand to them. > [@](#): > > If on the other hand you mean that because these people support the right to choose what ice cream we eat and therefore are pro-choice, I’ll wait until you have an intelligent response. no comment --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-why-dont-pro-choicers-just-say-it-kills-a-person-but-its-a-unique-circumstance/847228)._