>>10217
If you keep seeing people disagree with you for similar reasons, you should probably at least try to understand their point of view, rather than assume it's one autistic motherfucker who not only tracked you to a different website, but is going to the trouble of spoofing IDs on a (probably) unfamiliar site.
>>10193
The questions I asked didn't even come up in that reply chain. What you've replied with have been nothing but dodges and changing the subject.
>>10193
The whole "it's parasitic so abortion is justified" meme is not something I've ever heard a real (vs. strawman) pro-choice person actually use to justify abortion. The reason I point out that fetuses really are parasitic is that the argument you're talking about (and making) rests on "debunking" that claim. It's a lot easier to argue facts than logic, especially with someone demonstrating incompetence with the latter.
Here are my reasons for being "pro-choice" (awful term for the position):
1. Children should have the right to not be forced into the care of people who don't want them. This alone does a huge amount of damage in the human sense (individual psychological impact and the resulting behavior toward other people) and economic sense (cost of treating psychological problems and fixing damage to other people and property). Sometimes, dead's better. And there's no better time than when your parent(s) already want you dead.
2. High birth rates are particularly a problem for poor people, who tend not to have access to education re: contraceptives and family planning or the resources to pursue adoption. Giving poor women control over whether they reproduce does wonders for reducing poverty. One, fewer people are born into poverty in the first place. Two, with fewer children to care for, already poor families have an easier time rising out of poverty.
3. Sometimes contraceptives fail, and there's no way to know until the woman is pregnant. Abortion (especially early-term) is a simple solution to this and blocking it is doing no good and plenty of harm. It's possible to catch a pregnancy well before it's even possible for the developing embryo/fetus to feel pain and to medically induce a miscarriage. We don't treat miscarriage as manslaughter, you know.
4. Everyone has ups and downs in their lives. Timing can be a very important factor in the environment and therefore wellbeing of a child. Terminating a pregnancy during rough economic times can give parents the opportunity to start having kids at a point when they're on better financial footing. Carrying a child to term during a time of economic hardship is going to add extra work with no monetary recompense, meaning the family will probably never recover to where they would otherwise. If you have two people (or commonly among the poor, a single mother) working as much as they can, they stand a much better chance of saving up money, paying off debts, and working their way to financial stability, from which point having a kid is much more responsible. If they have the kid while in the rut, they would be unlikely to ever make up the difference, due to time taken off from work to care for the baby and the added expenses of child care.
5. People should be able to control what happens to their bodies. Non-persons don't trump this. Personhood isn't something that humans have until quite a while after birth. Ergo, abortion should be an option as long as the fetus can't survive outside the womb. That's just a matter of practicality. A fetus doesn't have the right to continued residence in an unwilling host. If it could survive outside the womb, then inducing birth could be argued as a better option than abortion, but I think that's a separate moral/ethical question. If the human (not sure whether fetus/baby is more technically accurate) is outside the mother's body, it's no longer a concern of bodily autonomy.
6. You've already said you don't oppose this, but there are tons of people who think even medical reasons don't justify abortion. Even when it puts the mother's life at risk or both lives at risk and she already has children to take care of. So I thought I'd just add this for good measure. A lot of these problems can't even be identified until later on in a pregnancy, too. Some women already have the hard choice between aborting a fetus (that without the complications would be totally viable at that stage) or giving birth and letting the baby live in extreme pain and/or with a lot of drugs for an hour or so. Taking away the option to euthanize just removes the option to reduce everyone's pain.