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On a similar note, you should also be 100% pro-choice.
Unfortunately, the media today loves to paint pictures using only onyx and alabaster (and yes, I did just look those two shades up). It is incredibly easy to want to jump into one of the tattered cardboard boxes – especially when almost all survey’s today seem to only offer one or the other. The truth is, these two run-away wagons are not being steered by red elephants or blue donkeys. They are two sugar-high five year olds jumping off the roof; not out of competition, but for attention.
After reading articles from both sides – including the extremes, such as hormone-driven middle-aged white men who will never come close to experiencing pregnancy, to alcoholic raging (non)feminists who
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The great news is, unlike some topics – such as whether or not Global Warming is real (and maybe not even that one) – this “controversy” does have a solid neutral ground.
Yes, you can be both Pro-Choice AND Pro-Life at the same time. Perhaps not with an aggressive hold onto every single argument in defense of each side (that would create some internal conflict that you should not be grappling with on top of everything else), but in a more compromising kind of

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