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Perchik's avatar
Well I believe that by using the word vegetarian and not vegan, the answer is yes.
nomtastic's avatar
if the eggs are unfertilized, i don't think they count as chicken babies. but the question is fascinating.
Perchik's avatar

Well I'll give a serious answer now. I don't know. I'm a vegetarian but I'm vegetarian because I don't support the "factory farming" industry. And to clarify, do you mean Pro-life in general or pro-life in regards to abortion?

lilakess's avatar

I would suspect that not only do they eat eggs, they eat eggs from chickens living in horrible conditions. I don't think people conflate those two issues, especially the people who generally vote pro-life.

shockvalue's avatar

are there pro-life vegetarians?

sferik's avatar

There are many reasons to be a vegetarian. Some do it for religious reasons, some for environmental reasons, and some just don’t like the taste of meat.

Then there is the type of vegetarian that doesn’t eat meat because they believe that all animal life is as valuable as human life. For this breed of vegetarian, I believe it would be inconsistent to be against abortion and then eat fertilized chicken eggs.

That said, there are many people who call themselves pro-life, yet have had an abortion. Beliefs don’t necessarily map to behaviors. Most people are hypocritical, or at least inconsistent, in at least one aspect of their life.

sundayBastard's avatar

well the chicken eggs you buy from the market are unfertilized anyway. so there is no life to them at all. so it would not contradict the pro-life’r

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