The Real Pro-Choice Argument

According to me

Shain Slepian
7 min readNov 7, 2023
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Now that I am in the business of telling leftists what their arguments ought to be, I think it’s only fair for me to descend from on-high to explain the best possible pro-choice argument from a completely factual and indisputable point of view.

Shortly after the Dobbs decision, I wrote this story, expressing my heartbreak and anger and fears in the immediate fallout of what I saw as a terrifying rollback in human rights. I poured by pain and rage into my words — the death, the agony, the humiliation were all I could think about.

Of course, as time has moved on, the energy has waned. Even the most passionate protesters have had to change the focus of their attention several times just to keep up with the newest crisis of any given moment. Conversations and debates in public forums have become cool and philosophical, as if it were all a very engaging theoretical question…

I digress.

The point is, watching pro-choice debaters try to respond to their anti-choice interlocutors has become a deeply frustrating sport for me. A pastime really, like trying to play with my cat even though I know she will immediately try to open my jugular vein.

I must reiterate the sentiments I expressed over a year ago: this is cataclysmic, it is violent and grotesque…

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Shain Slepian
Shain Slepian

Written by Shain Slepian

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