Pro-life vs. Pro-choice

It is easy to find many comments on what folks feel is right and wrong about universal health care.  One part, coverage for planned termination of pregnancy, divides and separates people.  It causes hard feelings between people to the point of anger, confrontation, and even hatred.   

Some would say that the baby is a person with no voice and no choice, or that the soul enters the body at the time of conception.  Others say that until the 'breath of life' enters the body, the fetus is not yet a person, or that each individual woman has a right to decide what is best for herself and the unborn child carried within her body.  What makes one view more valid than another?  What defines life?

Personally, I am pro-life, and by that I mean that I would not choose to terminate a pregnancy, even at the risk of my own life.  But when it comes to laws, I am pro choice.  Again personally, I am loathe to say that other women must take this same stance in their own life.  Why?  I strongly believe in the rights of each individual within their own life and their own home, as long as their choice affects no other person.   

My 9th grade civics teacher said, "Your rights end where another person's rights begin."  When a pro-choice law exists, it does not trample on my personal right to be pro-life.  However, if a pro-life law exists, it certainly tramples on the rights of women who are pro-choice.  And I do not feel wise enough to answer the question of when life begins.  I leave that and the judgement of each individual woman's choice to the source of all creation.

I feel no need to defend my point of view. I feel no need to convince or persuade others to accept my point of view. I am open to all points of view and am not rigidly attached to any one of them. Please feel free to share your stance and reasons for it, but I also ask that you be willing to hear the voice of others.