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Jul 18, 2022·edited Jul 18, 2022

I didn't say gratitude wasn't part of it, only that it wasn't the *totality* of my feelings.

If you see someone else observe that questions around abortion are morally & emotionally complex, and that their response to learning that they "might have been aborted" is multi-layered, but your response is to think that they haven’t thought about the issue and accuse them of letting their minds be overly affected by politics, I’d gently offer that maybe you’re the one indulging in partisan thinking, to the over-simplification of a complex issue.

I used to think I had this all figured out and had a simple, air-tight pro-life argument that solved everything. Thinking more deeply about it is precisely why I’m not that self-assured about my conclusions anymore.

To offer a parallel example - I find out that a mob boss kidnapped and drugged someone and had one of their kidneys cut out. On the other hand... I'm the guy who got the kidney. I'm certainly glad to have the kidney, but I don't think it'd be strange to say that my feelings on the subject are mixed. Nor do I think that acknowledging that my feelings are complex betrays some kind of shallow or partisan thinking on my part.

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