What makes pro-choice(abortion) a liberal perspective?

Answer 1

Pro-Choice is a liberal perspective about everything. Choice is what freedom is for, without it your freedom is limited by your lack of choice.

The only place Liberals would limit choice is when that choice makes choices for others. Then the choice must be accountable to those others. This is why Liberals believe in accountability for those with power. Power is the ability to make choices for others, no matter how or what that power comes from.

Why are Conservatives anti choice about everything except the powerful having unlimited choice to affect the powerless, without any accountability, but suddenly have crocodile tears about fetuses?

That is because fetuses don't have actual minds, but they can abuse and exploit women by insisting that only genetics can define a human, and not be accountable to actually do anything to help that fetus when it results in an actual human.

Actual empathy for actual Humans is another mostly exclusively Liberal perspective.

Answer 2

An interesting question that deserves a real answer. I read of a study a few months back (sadly I cannot find it as a reference) which place Generation Y as more liberal than preceding measured generations on all but one thing: abortion. Indeed, Gen Y is more likely to be conservative on this issue than previous generations (sans, perhaps, the greatest generation). It would appear abortion as a liberal issue is mainly a vestige of the Baby Boomer's sense of liberalism and, because of the small voting number and the even smaller turnout, the Democratic party has yet to alter its views on the subject. I would imagine this time lag will be solved in the incipient generational turnover.

I would disagree with most of the previous respondents' claim that liberalism is about choice or liberals have a better clue, etc., etc. The problem of the right to life in insoluble under these arguments--no one has yet developed a clear and consistent criteria for a scientific understanding of when life begins for a fetus.

However, I must note that _no_where_ in our Constitution is the right to life enumerated. That is the Declaration of Independence, which is not considered part of the canon of jurisprudence. Is life an unenumerated right? Well...given that people can in certain ways cede such a right (by being administered the death penalty), I doubt it is. And I deny that it is, then, inalienable by any stretch of the imagination. Security is one thing, the right to life is completely different.

Answer 3

In the sense that liberals try to serve all of the people more even-handedly than conservatives in some cases, pro-choice is a liberal perspective.

There is the idea that blocking abortion actually DENIES some very highly religious people the chance to exercise their own religion. Because one religion says "there is no separate person until the umbilicus is cut" and another says "the breath is the life." I.e. two post-emergence events that, with abortion blocked earlier, would still be open to very religious people. The liberals realize this and some of the more narrow-minded conservatives just don't get it.

Answer 4

Because liberals believe that full-grown women, as human beings, are intelligent enough to decide what is best for their own bodies without having to be protected from themselves by (mostly) men, who "know better."

They also realize that sometimes s.hit happens and that things like poverty and poor education contribute to s.hit happening, ideas that conservatives ignore in their eagerness to pretend like "we're all equal, no matter who your daddy is, though no one besides a rich white male has ever had a fighting chance of being president in the history of this country." And they want to keep church ideology out of the state. And they understand that abortion is very different from "murder" and fetuses very different from "(wanted) babies" and "adults," in spite of the mass misrepresentations and distortions of fact and reality employed by the religious right to convince people otherwise.

Answer 5

Nothing makes it a liberal prospective by principle, but liberals tend to be more for general welfare( as abortion is intended for well being).

Answer 6

This is tough, I'm a conservative, but I believe a woman must have the right to make a choice. Life or death for the woman, rape, incest, I cannot decide for her. I firmly dont believe US taxpayers should ever have to be forced to pay for something they are so strongly against. I just despise the liberal view that it isn't life. It is life. A Liberal wouldn't bat an eye at an aborted fetus, but will protest dusk til dawn to spare the life of a convicted cop killer.

Answer 7

Liberals tend to cater towards political minorities, such as African Americans, Hispanics, the LGBT Community, and women. A lot of women consider abortion to be a civil right issue, thus liberals tend to support it.

Note, 'political' minority, not literal minority, as women make up 52% of the US population, but less than half eligible to vote actually do so.

Answer 8

"Simple, liberals love killing babies." .... "Brain damage".....
Are you ******* kidding me....Reps/cons want everyone to have babies no matter what major f**ked up condition they might have and would never be able to lead a normal life and as soon as the child is born....simply says..."there you go, you're on your own"...good luck finding any health care and support for that child....they love to leave the kids out in the cold, just as long as you keep from having the abortion....they want government to control and regulate that...but want even flinch an eye or consider allowing government to help with health care and actually taking a proactive stance on helping people in this country who are really suffering....their idea of fixing it, is to ignore the problem .... just as long as you don't abort....my god what is wrong with reps/cons....can't you see America is in trouble and all you worry about is abortion....give me a break....

Answer 9

Because the people who don't mix religion and politics are called liberals.

Answer 10

It's a Grey issue, my very Conservative mother had one in the 60's because it was life or death...and I'm grateful she's still here....I'm glad my mother is still here, and those that think it's wrong are idiots, .....it'';s a women's right...get over it!.....