Discussion Anyone here who was pro-life but become pro-choice?

[curiousbeing]

Before becoming pro-choice, my pro-life thoughts were dominant. I respected others but I believed in pro life. How about you?
What made you change your opinions and become pro-choice?

 

[mysticatedwine]

well, i believe we all are pretty much pro-life before we are suicidal. there's not a lot of alternative offered in terms of perspective, and it's not a comfortable position to be seen as "this person who isn't suicidal but is okay with others committing suicide", socially speaking.

only exception being jack kervokian, maybe.

 

[Anonymousa]

well, i believe we all are pretty much pro-life before we are suicidal.

I mean I feel like a exception to that would be if you never knew about the concept of suicide until becoming suicidal yourself. Cus I feel like this applies to me as I only knew of suicide when I became suicidal and I never listened to the platitudes and sayings of "suicide is selfish" or the belief that suicide is bad. You can't really call me pro-life or pro-choice before me being suicidal as I didn't know of suicide really.

 

[[Lord Void]]

For those who were made aware of what suicide is before becoming suicidal, yeah chances are you were pro-life me included. The reality of the world is you can never empathize with another person until you come to know the same pain.

 

[Mr. Snrub]

The common platitudes about suicide always made me sick. Pro-life or pro-choice on the issue of suicide isn't as cut and dry as it is on the issue of abortion however, which I'm straightforwardly pro-choice on.

Many people ctb for dumb reasons. Ideally euthanasia would be legal everywhere and people could be assessed to see if it's genuinely their best option/try other things first if applicable etc.

We don't live in that world though. I still land on the pro-choice side. It's just not always so simple.