I'm having so much fun. NOT! I hate arguing with pro-lifers.

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3. Ask you friend" "Are you really for jailing women and their doctors?"

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Because that is what "pro-life" means. Make abortion a crime and its off to jail for women -- sometimes women in truly dire circumstances -- and the doctors who help them. It's off to jail for women who try to self-abort and end up in the hospital, who are then hauled off to jail for their crime (if they survive).

I've found that that can steer the conversation in a more reasonable direction.

Point out that what he wants is "no more abortions." We want that too. We think it would be wonderful if abortion were as rare as possible. If women -- including young women -- were fully informed and had easy access to birth control (with complete confidentiality).

Making abortion illegal will absolutely NOT accomplish his goal of "making it stop." "Banning" is not a magic wand.

It will only inflict greater suffering. Suffering for women and doctors who get "caught" and jailed. Suffering and death among desperate women who attempt to self-abort. More teens and other women having children they cannot support. More poverty because we have NO subsidized child care to support working mothers.

If he wants to see fewer abortions, he should support easy access to birth control. He should support subsidized child care to make it possible for a woman who wants a child, but who simply can't manage it because the cost of child care leaves her too little to live on.