Of course, where that crowd goes loses me is when they start railing against people that get abortions as contraceptive, or people who go and get them "for fun" or bullshit like that. While I'm sure it happens, I'm also sure that "welfare queens" exist, and people who use food-stamps for drugs and such exist. I just don't think they're even one percent of one percent of people getting abortions, on welfare, or on food-stamps, and that trying to stamp those 5 people and their dog out will waste time, effort, money, and adversely affect the vast vast majority who actually use the service responsibly.
This may be needlessly inflammatory, but you greatly misunderstand the other side's point of view if this is what you pick out. It might be greatly advantageous to somebody if another person died, but for obvious reasons it remains illegal for that person to kill them. If someone sees a viable embryo as a human being then aborting it is, in their eyes, just as much a murder as the first case.
I notice you didn't read the first half of the post. You know, the part where I said "Them seeing it as a human being, I can understand it, I just don't agree with it." ? Or the latter half, where I pointed out that making it illegal doesn't stop abortions, but it does make it riskier, so instead of one 'person' dying, it's two? Hm.
I notice that you took the one part of my post that *wasn't* talking about the idea that "fetuses are people", and said "HEY YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THEY THINK FETUSES ARE PEOPLE!"
I notice that you took my "This other stuff, besides the whole fetus-as-people argument, is absurd!" and took it to me meaning I thought everyone on the pro-life/anti-choice side thought this way?
Edit: Also to others who hopefully actually read my post and understood it, the food-stamps bit was my point. Various groups are saying that "welfare queens" and "drugged up [people]" are using welfare/food-stamps on drugs and luxuries, when it's very hard to do it and all evidence points to it not actually being that big of a thing, at least for drug-use. Though those articles about food-stamp trading being a near-billion dollar part of the economy just points more to the idea that people know more about what they need to spend money on than they're given credit, and that they should stop doing food-stamps and funnel that money directly to the people on the program. At least to begin with.