John Wilkes Booth

I'm pro-life and pro-choice. 100% in favor of both life and choices.

Zer0

But are you in favour of life or the choice of a termination?

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John Wilkes Booth

I was just poking fun at the dishonest euphemisms.

The pragmatist in me leans towards being in favor of abortion simply because I feel like the more control that people have over when they procreate, the better.

Morally, I can understand the pro-life point of view. Some of the defenses of abortion I see tossed around (it's not life/not a human) are pure nonsense. The argument that it's not conscious is a little more compelling, but still pretty iffy imo. You could probably make that same argument for new born babies - it just depends on where you want to draw that line.

But I guess I just don't have that rigid a moral code and don't view killing it as some sort of sin that won't be forgiven. I just look at cause and effect. Killing people is 'wrong' for all sorts of practical reasons. I can't think of a practical reason for why abortion is wrong - only the truism that killing innocent humans is always wrong. To me the benefits of increasing control over procreation outweigh strict adherence to that principle in this case.