If there is an issue more contentious, more emotional, more liable to cause a wrench to the gut, a surge of anger, a shout of anguish, than Iraq, gay marriage, and gun control combined, it’s abortion.
It’s not a topic I discuss here often, just because it’s a topic I struggle with on a number of levels, being both highly sympathetic to those who oppose abortion because they believe it’s the taking of human life (and the lengths to which such a conviction must drive them), and to those who oppose abortion restrictions because of the intrusion of the law and society into something so painfully personal.
That said, as this linked article shows, regardless of what has or has not been legally restricted, the legal and social threats over abortion and abortion providers has led to circumstances where a woman who needs one, who should be able to get one — even, I suspect, in the eyes of most abortion opponents — had to go through this ordeal.
Not for the faint of heart.
This isn’t an easy topic, because regardless of what we end up doing as a society about abortion, a horrible amount of pain and suffering is going to result.
(via Respectful of Otters)
Thanks.