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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44691738.
(We probably both disagree with him on the topic and the arguments, but that's secondary to my question.) Which part of him stating his opinion is "disturbing" to you?
Considering that the pro-life side is typically called anti-woman or worse, the scales are hardly unbalanced against the pro choice side.
(I don't think a fetus, especially <20 weeks or whatever, is a full moral person, but I understand those who do)
Are people really wavering in the middle, eager to pick a side but terrified of being labelled as anti-choice or anti-life? Maybe kids are deciding their position based on which words sound nicer rather than agreeing with / rebelling against their parents? And these kids already know enough that "pro-abortion" means "villain" to them?
You rarely (or never) see a discussion about, say, Trump turn into a litigation of whether it's okay to call the opposition libtards/rwnjs/SJWs/MAGAts, but that stuff has to make up more than half of abortion discussion. Is it just that people are loath to actually talk about the issue at this point and this is another outlet?
I didn't like the use of the word "pro-abortion". I generally address them as pro-life even though I don't like that it indirectly indicates that the other side would be "anti-life" but I agree that it's not productive to get into a flame war on terminology.