I was excited to see you'd posted the article, but wanted to wait until I'd caught up on sleep enough to be coherent before I read it.
See, this is the debate I think the country really needs to be having. It seems to me that legality isn't the issue. Women will have abortions, legal or not, safe or not, as long as the alternatives are poverty, exhaustion, &/or shame. Those are what we need to do something about, at least in my mind.
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Date: 2009-03-02 12:24 am (UTC)See, this is the debate I think the country really needs to be having. It seems to me that legality isn't the issue. Women will have abortions, legal or not, safe or not, as long as the alternatives are poverty, exhaustion, &/or shame. Those are what we need to do something about, at least in my mind.
*applauds you*
So, how did the meeting go?