With all due respect, it's not that simple.
I don't believe that a woman forfeits her rights by choosing to carry a child to term. I find it morally repugnant that women can be and have been forced to have C-sections against their will because their own preferences are no longer factored into the equation. I'm against "ripping fetuses limb from limb," but I'm equally against taking a woman into custody, strapping her legs together, dragging her to the hospital, and cutting her open, as happened to Laura Pemberton in 1999. She later sued for civil rights violations and was told fetal rights outweighed hers.
Regardless of whether or not a woman should have a right to an abortion, she should not lose the rights that everyone is entitled to by becoming pregnant. In countries where abortion is illegal, this all too often turns into women losing their own lives or freedom. Savita Halappanavar died in Ireland in 2012 after being denied an abortion when miscarriage was inevitable. In 2016, a pregnant woman in El Salvador was denied cancer treatment because the country's abortion law doesn't permit it. She also died. Likewise in El Salvador, women have had miscarriages and been sentenced to 30 years of prison because they were suspected of having had abortions. This is a thing that happens.
I'm morally opposed to abortion. I'm also morally opposed to a pro-life movement that doesn't address the systemic causes behind many abortions, i.e., poverty and opportunity costs. Champion affordable prenatal care, daycare, healthcare, and whatever other social programs would remove the onus from vulnerable women and families. Support the sort of sex education programs that would prevent plenty of this situations from arising in the first place. Speak out when the lives and rights of pregnant women, regardless of whether or not they want to abort, are devalued and discarded. Then we'll talk.
Until then, yeah, I actually really am pro-choice.
