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I'm 100% pro-abortion-rights but I can still accept that abortion is an act of destroying a life. Even in the case of taking abortion pills. But obviously most of us consider there to be a huge difference in ethical significance between destroying the life of an embryo and that of a fully grown independent human.

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I think this is the tragedy of America - in Canada abortion is enshrined as a human right that helps to protect the lives of young people who have made a mistake instead of dooming them to a life of misery (and their future children with them).

Only in America has the continuous rhetoric actually forced the idea that abortions are murder out of the fringe crowd and into the common understanding. That is truly sad.

Canada sends people to the US for abortions:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7868372/coronavirus-covid-pandemi...

Canada's abortion laws are more restrictive than what was under Casey.

No more than excising a cancer is, before the age of viability. Early on, it's just cells.

I don't think cancer qualifies as "a life" at all sorry. Taking anti-biotics to kill a bacterial infection might be a better comparison.

Cancers don't become cooing babies if left alone to grow.

Even if you are pro-choice, comparing an unborn child to a disease that kills millions is a poor move.

It's part of the rhetoric--the rationalization.

Later on, it's also just cells. That kind of naive reductionism leads us to reducing a human being to cancer.

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