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March 29, 2006 The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion 
Courtesy Girlbomb, I discovered this article on the phenomenon of anti-choice activists having abortions. Apparently, the situation is not as rare as one might expect, with approximately one quarter of all abortion procedures in the US being performed on women who identify as evangelical or fundamentalist, or anti-choice, sometimes even calling the providers who give them the procedure a murderer. Charming, no? Since nearly half of all women in the US will have at least one abortion, one quarter being evangelical or fundamentalist--that's a lot of women. That's almost 13% of all American women being fundamentalist anti-choice activists who have themselves had abortions. Planned Parenthood estimates that as many as half of all abortions in the US are performed on someone who feels the procedure is immoral. Go figure. Next time you see that picket line outside of the abortion clinic--and if you've never had the opportunity to witness one, I envy you; but it is a spectacle--wonder how many of those women have themselves exercised the option that they would deny you. Posted by Andrea at March 29, 2006 2:47 PM under Female Trouble EMAIL this entry (comments fields are below this section) Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments My friend used to work in patient support at a clinic here in town. She said that more than once she held the hand of a woman who had an abortion and then the next morning was back on the anti-choice picket line outside. Posted by: Dawn at March 29, 2006 3:54 PM
thanks for the link to that article. Posted by: suze at March 30, 2006 2:31 PM
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