&gt; So few people will ever have abortions in their lives...<p>1. Few people are killed by cops. Does that mean the issue isn&#x27;t important?<p>2. Abortion rates are higher than you probably realize. For example, in NYC over 1&#x2F;3 of pregnancies are terminated [1]. And that&#x27;s after it&#x27;s been getting better. There are on the order of a million abortions every year, depending on how you count. You know a lot of people that have had terminated pregnancies. They just haven&#x27;t told you about it.<p>3. Is it fair to be a single issue voter? If your perfect candidate in every other respect also planned to take away the right to vote from Native Americans, could you vote for her? Of course not.<p>The reason it&#x27;s a controversial issue is because both sides see it as a human rights issue (like universal suffrage).<p>pro-choice:<p>* Women deserve autonomy<p>* They don&#x27;t deserved to be punished and have their lives ruined due to mistakes and oversights in birth control<p>* Women are intelligent and deserve the benefit of the doubt about when abortion is a good choice or not<p>* Government should support women and their goals in their healthcare, not dictate their lives<p>pro-life:<p>* Unborn humans are humans, too, and deserve to be recognized as people with rights<p>* This is literally a civil rights issue on the order of importance of slavery, suffrage for women, or black civil rights<p>* Erring on the side of not killing is the right way to balance &#x27;choice&#x27; with &#x27;life&#x27;<p>* Bodily autonomy has limits in extreme circumstances (having sex in public, taking illicit drugs, wearing seatbelts)<p>* The sexism argument is a red herring. Half of children are women, and the most vocal pro-life proponents tend to be women as well.<p>Additionally, the pro-life side has procedural objections since there was never a democratic process for expanding the right to abortions. I agree with this point, which means I blame the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade for all this animosity.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;17&#x2F;abortion-rate-plummets-in-new-york-city&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;17&#x2F;abortion-rate-plummets-in-new-y...</a>