[Fwd: Re: Abortion acceptability data]

[Katha Pollitt]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
> Katha wrote:
> >Similarly, most Americans routinely tell
> >pollsters that they think premarital sex, extramarital sex are ALWAYS
> >wrong--that doesn't mean they want the govt to police the bedroom.
> 
> And most Americans routinely have premarital sex, extramarital sex, and all
> kinds of sex while telling pollsters they think sex is BAD, BAD, BAD.
> 
> The same goes for abortion.
> 
> What people say and what they do aren't the same. Even those who say that
> they are 'pro-life' or 'ambivalent' about abortion often need or want
> abortion when it comes to their own reproductive affairs.
> 
> Yoshie

Yes -- according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, one in six
"born-again" women  have had abortions. (For the whole population of
women it's roughly two in five.)  And for many of those born-agains,
there's a born again parent, spouse, boyfriend etc who's helping them
through the experience. I think these people could be brought to see
their commonalty with other women who have catastrophic pregnancies.