When it comes to AS pro-lifers,

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Are they usually biased toward the disabled.

I kind of get the feeling sometimes that they only fight for the lives of those with disabilities to live, but not other lives.

I'd fight for anyone's life. If there is a perceived bias towards the disabled, that's only because the disabled are more at risk of being aborted.

I'm Pro-Life for all unborn babies, whether they have a disability, or not.

My wife was born at 24 weeks and is a healthy, vivant, & sometimes kinky person. I am very glad she was not aborted.

I do what I can within the law to protest excessive abortions in the US. Less than 1% of abortions fall into rape, incest, extreme defects, or life treating. The rest are simple birth control. Roe v. Wade was the right to patient / doctor privacy.. not the right to have an abortion. Doctors that perform unnecessary abortions should have their licenses revoked for breaking their oath to preserve life.

Sorry for the short rant..

May I point out that all this "pro-life", "pro-choice" hoo-ha is only a big deal in the USA.

I think the people in most other countries couldn't give a hoot one way or the other.

Why is this?

I see it as murder, one way or another. I mean, think of the potential that's wasted. What if Einsten was aborted? Who knows what that fetus could turn out to be, or do. All life at least deserves a chance.

Well iam pro-choice that amy cause iam from europe. But i dont see why a woman shouldnt have the right to decide.
I mean if you have no room in to your live carry out a child that you dont want, why should any body have the right to force you? I think killing a thinking feeling beeing is wrong, destroying a bunch of cells that may develop in to one is not so, i otherwise you could say mensstruation and masturbation are murder too, killing also potential humans.

What if they aborted Hitler? the Einstein argument cuts both ways.

I believe life begins when the infant first sucks air into its lungs. Prior to this phenomenal act on the part of the newborn, there is no consent to be here, no agreement to participate in this thing we call life.

Technically the fetus is alive, but prior to that first breath, the fetus hasn't made any declaration of intent.

(Declaration of Intent is an immigration form my grandfather had to file, before he could become a citizen of the US. The metaphor/analogy is clearly applicable.)

Taking your first breath is an automatic and involuntary act. It's clearly not a statement of intent!

By contrast (especially to most people on this thread), eugenic abortions are the only ones that I am really squeamish about when it comes to being pro-choice. Even then, however, I have to weigh the evils, and I'd hate to force a kid into this world if they were only going to be undercared for, abandoned and/or abused. I think efforts would be better spent on making the world such that an autistic or other disabled child coming from any background could have just as good a shot as any other kid at reaching his or her maximum potential, so that there would be no justification other than shallowness for eugenic abortions.

Overall, though, I'm too squicked by the sort of body horror involved in being forced through pregnancy to support anyone regulating another's body like that.