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more about #choice more comments → JRae: I think pro-choice people need to stop pointing to rape and incest as "good" reasons to have an abortion. I think it's a good enough reason that one ... more » shambala: i'm 44 and i've had 5 abortions. i've never regretted these decisions for a single moment. nor did i have to think twice before i made the decision. more » Experiment626: Maybe this will sound insensitive, but looking at pictures of fetuses don't move me or make me go "AWW." I think those people holding up the posters m... more » JinxyMcDeath: I know a close family member who had an abortion and the only thing difficult about the decision was trying to find somewhere to have it since it was ... more » PhillyLass: I would like to propose a law requiring every anti-choice protester to adopt a child born to a woman intimidated away from PP or the like. Since they ... more » Seize: I wasn't sorry then, and - if this is even possible - I am even less sorry now. I am, in fact, so incredibly relieved that I made the decision to end ... more » BetteD: I have to just say, Tracie: that you manage to say so much in so few words constantly amazes me, as does your ability to pick through the barren trash... more » woodsey: I hate how Elisabeth is saying it will make the choice "easier", by which she means it will be easier to choose not to have the abortion. Not making ... more » pmarble: I have never had an abortion, but in one year of my life three women to whom I was very close did. The two who were able to tell their parents about ... more » JezeBoy: It bums me out that whenever a pro-choicer is countering a pro-life argument that it needs to get back to rape and incest for examples of when abortio... more » chinaplate: I like the point that the woman sitting next to Elisabeth Hasselbeck made (I don't know who she is, sorry - never seen this show). It can just 'hit yo... more » Ack: I used the counter-protest for NOW in front of a Planned Parenthood in Boston. While all of the anti-abortionists were putting up ugly gross pictures... more » UrbanAchiever: I've posted a long-ish rant below, but just wanted to say that PP was there for me way back in the 70s - a dismayed teen with a deadbeat BF. Yep, I gu... more » Erda: My mom got an abortion shortly after she married my stepdad, because she busy fighting my bio dad for custody and my sister, stepsister and I were sti... more » ides: When do they show the pictures of a toddler throwing a tantrum at 2 am, keeping his/her single working mom awake through the night? Or the picture of... more » -
#viewaskew
The View: For Some, Abortion Is An Easy Decision
During Hot Topics this morning, the panel got into a heated debate over Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood director turned anti-abortion activist. Elisabeth says that showing women images of abortions could make reproductive decisions a little "easier". More » -
#facesofevil
Don't Let The Lack Of Signage Fool You: Scott Roeder's Trial Brought Out His Supporters
Do you remember the New York Times article about Scott Roeder's preliminary hearing? If you did, you were probably left with the impression that the anti-abortion movement is staying away. But Amie Newman at Feministe heard otherwise. More » -
#roevsworld
Man Charged In Murder Had Ties To Anti-Abortion, Anti-Government Organizations
Anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder was charged yesterday afternoon with the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, and many are beginning to question whether he was truly "a lone nut," or a member of a network of domestic terrorists. More » -
#careerchoice
Abortion Clinics, Activists Fear For The Future
In yesterday's Times, Anne Baker describes abortion counseling as her "dream job," but as her generation nears retirement, she worries that young women aren't interested in taking over the fight for choice. More » -
#epicfails
Feminism Is The Supposed Key To Women's Unhappiness
Playwright Zoe Lewis heads to the (you guessed it) Daily Mail to cast the new face of unhappy, self-absorbed, childless-and-missing-it feminism, because nothing says "feminist" like a woman who blames it for all her unhappiness. More » -
#jezenomics
Will The Recession Make Workplace Equity Better For Women?
In 2005, economists noticed that the last recession (in 2001) helped reduce the wage gap between men and women to the lowest level in decades. What will this recession do for women? More » -
