Are you pro-choice because you are smart?

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Tell me.

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There’s a difference between “smart” and “wise”. I’m pro-choice because I am wise.

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I’ll probably answer after this thread has run its course. Sound good?

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I’m smarter than the clowns who say allowing abortion for rape victims is unnecessary because women who are raped never get pregnant.
Besides that, intelligence has little to do with this debate.

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You first.

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I’m pro-choice because I’m compassionate. Some people would believe that makes me stupid.

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Any relation to your “Do you believe you are an atheist because you are smart?” thread, where people gave their reasoned responses for being an atheist, then you popped in with your personal belief that didn’t really match up with what was posted by others?
Why don’t you tell us why you think people are pro-choice?

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My experience is that pro-life activists tend to be more informed about topics such as fetal development and abortion procedures than pro-choice activists are. Less savvy pro-choicers will often say absurd things like claiming that an embryo or fetus isn’t alive or human, which is demonstrably false and sounds ludicrous to anyone who is informed about science.

Another problem I see with less sophisticated pro-choicers is that they often say that the fetal development or abortion photos that pro-lifers use are “fake”, and they just stop thinking about it beyond that. What does a fetus ACTUALLY look like alive or after an abortion? They don’t seem to have any interest or curiosity about these things. In their mind, it is enough to just dismiss the pro-lifers’ evidence as “fake” and leave it at that. They just blindly trust that the “real” pictures are surely not that bad, without bothering to even look into it for themselves.

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I feel it’s the opposite. The basis of the pro-life position is the belief that some people are smarter and know more than the people who are actually involved in the situation. So these people feel that it’s best to take the decision making away from the people involved and tell them what they should be doing.

I’m pro-choice because I don’t believe that I’m smart enough to be making decisions like that for everyone. I feel that the people involved in the situation are going to be able to make better choices about it than I am and should be allowed to make those decisions for themselves.

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Is this in answer to the OP? Are you pro-choice because you’re smart? Otherwise, please provide cites for the above. My experience has been that pro-choicers say that fetuses are not yet a person (with the rights that come with personhood), not that they aren’t alive or human.

To the OP – intelligence has nothing to do with someone’s stance on abortion, if you ask me. What do you think? Are you pro-choice because you’re smart? Are you pro-choice? Are you smart?

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I’m pto-choice because I don’t believe anyone should be using a woman’s body without her permission. I’m pro-choice because I do see something wrong with tying a woman to her rapist for the rest of her life. I’m pro-choice because I know that some women do not want to have a child and are incapable of handing a child over to strangers like a sack of dirty laundry.

Does that make me smart? I don’t know. But I do know there are good reasons to be pro-choice.

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I’m pro-choice because as a man it’s none of my damned business what women do with their own bodies. Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion.

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Are you pro-choice because you are smart?

In my case, it’s utter coincidence.

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No. As in, no, I won’t tell you.

ETA: It’s a terrible question phrased terribly.

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+1

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Yes. This isn’t to say that smart people can’t come to an alternate answer, but there’s a difference between coming to an answer and accepting an answer and I would say that you fall under the heading of smart if you did the former.

Though, in general, I believe that most people who think about the question come down on the pro-choice side.

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I’m pro-choice because I believe in what I’ve heard was the original motto of Planned Parenthood: Every child a wanted child.

I’m pro-choice because I’ve seen what happens when a child is raised by parents who didn’t want the child and resents their existence. And I think that was a far worse fate than never being born at all.

I’m pro-choice, because if we have laws that force someone to use their body to support another organism, we need to expand this. Let’s make blood donation and bone marrow donation mandatory. Don’t like that? Then why are you surprised when women don’t want to be forced into the same position?

I’m pro-choice because someone was being charged with murder because someone else killed their unborn child and that only got dropped because of the public outcry. And the person that shot her “were dismissed after a failed indictment.”

I’m pro-choice because women have been charged with illegal abortions when they had miscarriages, and it will happen again. See above.

I’m pro-choice, because pregnancy has a risk of death of the mother, and people should have a choice in that risk.

I’m pro-choice, because access to abortion is proven to be better economically for women and children.

I’m pro-choice because some unborn children have such severe abnormalities that if not aborted they are in tortuous levels of pain and won’t survive birth, and I think the parents have the responsibility to end their child’s suffering. If abortions are illegal, this becomes not an available option.

I’m pro-choice because I’m pro-sex. Sex isn’t just for pro-creation, it strengthens love bonds in loving couples. I believe it improves mental health as well, although I can’t find any research on it (most results that I find are about medical effects on sexual activity or on gender differences). It’s a powerful force in our life. “Just don’t have sex” is not a good approach to birth control.

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I’m a pro-choice atheist. You tell me whether that makes me smart.