Reply #9: We're never going to win the argument framing it that way

[JerseygirlCT]

I absolutely agree that the individual woman is the ONLY person qualified to make such a decision. But when talking in gov't terms, we're not addressing this on that level.

What we need to do is make it clear what's at stake here: not whether life begins at conception (whatever that really means), but whether an individual (take the "woman" out of it) has the right to make private medical decisions about that individual's own body.

Framed that way, you'd find more men readily agreeing. Framed as a "women's issue", it's far too easy to dismiss it and to find it far too easy to hand over women's rights. After all, it's not going to affect them, right?

This is about individual rights, pure and simple. Women, like men, shouldn't have to beg for the right to bodily integrity.