Can anyone truly believe that abortion is murder and yet be pro-choice?

[dolstein]

Frankly, I have a hard time with politicians like John Kerry, who say they personally accept the teachings of the Catholic church on abortion, but that abortion should remain legal because they don't want to legislative their own moral beliefs on others.

Puh-leeze. We legislate morality all the time. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 clearly reflected a moral judgment on racial discrimination. Would ANYONE here find it acceptable to for someone to say "personally, I think racial discrimination is wrong, but I wouldn't want to enforce my own moral beliefs on others." Don't laugh -- many conservatives who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made this very argument. Thankfully, they lost.


Personally, I support legalized abortion during the early stages of pregnancy. But then agian, I don't consider this to be murder, so it's easy for me to accept this position. If I genuinely believed that abortion was murder, then I couldn't in good conscience support legal decisions and legislation that permitted abortion, exception in "justifiable homicide" type situations.