OK, I’m coming out of the closet. I’m pro-life.

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108. I knew that wasn't going to be clear.

"Over to you."

Your turn. The ball's in your court. You have the options, you get to decide.

Continue to use rhetoric that demeans women by treating them and their lives and their choices as a lumped up quantity that someone else's opinion about matters, or not.

If there's a reason for saying "abortion should be rare", I have never yet encountered it. That is, I have never yet encountered a reason for saying it that does not apply equally to "heart surgery should be rare".

It's only women's choices about something that is utterly and completely personal to each woman that get pronounced about this way.

Here's your new slogan: Let's help women avoid unwanted pregnancy if that is their goal, and keep abortion safe and legal.

Exact counterpart of: Let's help people avoid heart disease if that is their goal, and keep heart disease safe and legal.

It's absolutely correct to say

The issue should be no more politicized than any other medical issue, but it is.

But that does not lead to your conclusion:

I would do so if cancer treatment had become politicized like abortion has been. If abortion had not been demonized like it has been, the statement would have no meaning.

We do not alter our rhetoric, let alone our principles, to fit into the twisted depiction of an exercise of fundamental rights that has been served up by someone else.

If we don't want women's rights to be a political football, we don't play football with them.

It makes absolute sense to demand, in response to the politicizing and demonizing, that abortion be available safely and legally.

It makes no sense at all to stigmatize women's choices one's self by saying the choices women make should be rare.