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akuma587 said:
Why do pro-life people act like pro-choice people are pro-abortion? And why do they act like forcing everyone else to adopt the same behavior as you is the morally superior choice?

I think abortion is terrible. But that doesn't mean I think it should be illegal. People should make the decision for themselves, just like whether or not they decide to have sex in the first place.

Some people find interracial marriages to be immoral, and find smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol to be immoral. The government is not a moral referee, and it is ironic that many people who think the government should be a moral referee are against government intervention in any other context.

We'll take halogamer for instance. He is against government sponsored healthcare and against "socialism," but he is for the government telling women how to control their bodies.

Why should the government get involved? Shouldn't we let "the market" or social education programs fix the problem? Its just unnecessary regulation on private behavior that the government should have no interest in whatsoever.

Why should the government give tax exemptions to churches? I find that morally offensive.

This is a misrepresentation of the anti-abortionist's view.  We are not telling a woman how to control her body, we're claiming another body is involved; therefore, for us, abortion is an violation of the rights of another person.  Just as we think the government should prevent murders, so do we (in the supposition of fetus=full-rights human being) think abortion should be prevented.  The goverment is the moral referee in quite a few cases; if a fetus is indeed fully human, then the government certainly is obligated to intervene, just as it would do in "regular" instances of murder.

The crux of the argument is whether or not a fetus has the full rights as the rest of us, not over what control a woman has over her body.