{"id":28397,"date":"2012-06-21T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/good-abortions-and-bad-abortions-and-who-should-decide.html"},"modified":"2012-06-21T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:31:00","slug":"good-abortions-and-bad-abortions-and-who-should-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/good-abortions-and-bad-abortions-and-who-should-decide.html","title":{"rendered":"Good abortions and bad abortions, and who should decide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an incredibly powerful, personal piece, worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;There is no universal good option. There is no universal bad option. But for each individual there is an option that is the least bad. Here is why I am pro-choice. If someone has to make a decision and the best they can hope for is the least-bad option, I don\u2019t believe I have any business making that choice for them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>My abortion is not a good abortion. It&#39;s just an abortion. And there&#39;s no reason to treat the decision I have to make any differently than the decisions made by any other woman.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/06\/20\/the-only-good-abortion-is-my-a.html'>The only good abortion is my abortion<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs I write this, it is 1:17 am on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012. I am lying awake in bed, trying to decide whether or not to have an abortion. Of course, we don\u2019t call it an abortion. We call it \u201ca proce&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/7EGc6PBvGRZ' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an incredibly powerful, personal piece, worth reading. &quot;There is no universal good option. There is no universal bad option. But for each individual there is an option that is the least bad. Here is why I am pro-choice. If someone has to make a decision and the best they can hope for is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/good-abortions-and-bad-abortions-and-who-should-decide.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good abortions and bad abortions, and who should decide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29921,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/abortion-is-a-non-trivial-decision.html","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":0},"title":"Abortion is a non-trivial decision","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Aug-12 10:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am pro-choice. I don't know anyone who is \"pro-abortion\" per se, because abortion is not a trivial decision. But it's a decision I refuse to second-guess the people most intimately involved in it, because they are walking down a path I cannot. 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Then they were asked what sort of punishment a...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131427,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/on-being-a-doctor-who-performs-abortions.html","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":2},"title":"On being a doctor who performs abortions","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Sep-16 4:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article on life as an abortion provider in the great state of Utah._'As a result of such threats, Torres does take precautions. She has her mail delivered to a post-office box; she doesn\u2019t talk about her family or personal life online; she doesn\u2019t even put pro-choice bumper stickers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131027,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/the-struck-down-texas-anti-abortion-laws-served-their-purpose-sort-of.html","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":3},"title":"The struck-down Texas anti-abortion laws served their purpose &#8230; sort of","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jul-16 5:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Abortions in Texas in 2014 were, overall, down -- but precipitously down among Latina women, at least as far as official statistics go. There was a recorded uptick in women going to neighboring states but indications that a lot of those abortions changed over to medicinal abortions using less-safe meds\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/whats-in-a-related-to-abortion-name-said-shakespeare.html","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":4},"title":"What&#39;s in a (related to abortion) name, said Shakespeare?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Aug-12 11:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interestingly enough, it seems that the labels \"pro-life\" and \"pro-choice\" are more totemic than accurate, as a substantial number of \"pro-life\" people indicate that they think that decisions about abortions should be made by women and their families and doctors, not by the government.Which says to me that a lot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132638,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/the-gop-congress-tries-to-leverage-the-aca-to-restrict-abortions.html","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":5},"title":"The GOP Congress tries to leverage the ACA to restrict abortions","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jan-17 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Until they can pass laws to more directly ban the practice, they are looking to find ways to let the ACA's exchanges restrict private insurers from offering any sort of abortion coverage.'HR7 prohibits insurance carriers from offering policies that contain abortion coverage on the exchanges set up under Obamacare to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}