2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hostility to women one of strongest predictors of Trump vote. [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,979 posts)It was other people and arguments that changed me.
Her argument was essentially, "Women can do it because they carry the fetus." That didn't work on me because it was too akin, in my mind, to parents arguing they could kill their own (born) kids because they were their parents. "Controlling women" had no bearing on my thought process back then, just like I didn't consider it "controlling parents" if I opposed their arguments to freely to kill their own children.
If some Democrats support abortion at any stage of development, even days before they're born like Trump tried to portray in a debate, I honestly don't support that (even now) unless there's some compelling health arguments for it.
However, everyone needs to make compromises in life. Given that very late-term abortions are not even remotely common, I'd prefer to remain on the side of pro-choice (even if that kind of abortion was openly embraced and emphasized in the party platform) rather than take a stubborn anti-abortion position.
Most of my decisions involve weighing pros vs. cons, and I think most people do that. Don't they?
EDIT: And my decisions often involve my sense of probabilities too since I'm not all-knowing and never will be. It's a scientific approach as Richard Feynman described here: