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>And why shouldn't they.

I'm not making the argument that they shouldn't.

Rather, we were discussing the interesting situation where people that don't believe in unrestricted late term abortion use the same phrase.

It is interesting because it can ratchet up disagreement by signaling a more extreme position than they actually hold.

Pro-life and pro-choice are such poorly defined positions that someone with a middle option can easily classify as either



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