Quote from olias:
I think I have the answer to this highly devisive issue. At least an answer that both sides should be able to live with
...and the answer is the the pro-life movement has to stop trying to resolve this issue politically. In other words, no longer pursue legislation to stop a woman's right to have the abortion. Even if they get the legislation that they want, there would only be resentment from a large portion of society and you would still have huge amounts of illegal abortions; probably much less safe for the mother. That is not going to satisfy anyone. The goal of the pro-life movement should be to have a country where women have the RIGHT to an abortion, but no one chooses to have the abortion. And the pro-choice movement should be happy with that as well. The compromise from the pro-choice side is that they are going to have to welcome the pro-life side to distribute medical information; things like letting everyone know that a baby's heart starts beating at 22 days after conception, etc. Women should have as much information as they can before making a decision. I'm against distributing pictures of aborted fetuses, etc. I don't think that is productive. Pro-life needs to stop the rhetoric of stating that abortion is 'evil' etc. The basic message should be: 'based on a medical basis, we think a pre-born baby should be considered a human life worth protecting, and here is our evidence'.
Then we can stop vilifying the other side and realize both are trying to do what is 'good' from their own perspective. I think this is the best we can hope for