How can a vegan be pro-choice?!

How can a vegan be pro-choice?

Both the vegans I know are pro-choice. This doesn't make sense to me. How can you be opposed to killing a chicken fetus (egg) but be ok with killing a human fetus.

I am pro choice, I also eat meat. I can understand how they fit together. I can understand how one can be pro-life and have no problem eating meat. I can respect someone is pro-life and vegan (although I disagree with them on both points) but for the life of me I can not figure out how you reconcile being pro-choice and vegan. Please explain how you reconcile the apparent hypocracy.

I will start by answering a question with a question: How can someone be pro-life if they eat dead animals?

There is a big difference between ending a pregnancy in the first trimester (before the embryo/fetus has any sentience) and what does on in the animal industries. I mean, these animals feel pain and misery for weeks (chickens raised for their flesh), months (chickens imprisoned for their eggs, veal calves, pigs), and years (cows raised for their flesh and their milk).

Now, in the U.S. 10 billion animals are slaughtered every year for food, a number that greatly eclipses the 1.5 million or so abortions that take place over that same time period. Also, not all of those aborted embryos would have become babies--some women may have miscarried anyway. And I believe forced pregnancy--no matter what the species--is wrong. Granted, many women have a say in the activity that caused the pregnancy, unlike the cows, chickens, pigs, et al. who are inseminated. But forcing them to carry a pregnancy they do not want to term can only have tragic consequences.

But for a short answer: I value actual lives over potential lives. I believe we should worry about the humans already here and non-human animals before we worry about a cluster of cells in a woman's uterus.