re: Why is abortion so important to the Left?

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It’s a few things, but mainly they get to play god.

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If your answer makes your opponent seem clownishly foolish it is usually a wrong answer.

The actual answer is that after the First Wave Feminism subsided, and woman had the right to vote and participate fully in public life, the Second Wave Feminists were still concerned that women were not really taking advantage of all this. They concluded that until, and unless, women had the same reproductive freedom as men have - that is, the freedom to engage in casual sex without the specter of an unwanted pregnancy - they would not be able to be truly equal.

Remember, you asked what was their reasoning. It is my conviction that if you can’t accurately argue your opponents’ side of the issue then you are not competent to hold your own opinions on that issue. The paragraph above is their point of view in brief. I agree with it up to a point. Where I take exception is that reproductive freedom is a step toward making women identical, not just equal, to men. Also, to the extent their goals might be laudable, they must be weighed against the slaughter of the fetus/baby.