[lbo-talk] "I Had an Abortion"

[John Thornton]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>I, too, had an abortion -- simply because I did not want a child.
>
>what a piece of self indulgent crap.
>
>Gary?

How so? I think this was discussed recently in a thread that I did not 
follow terribly closely. I do wonder why you believe it is of no merit and 
only "self indulgent crap"? Why wouldn't working towards reducing the 
stigmatizing of people who choose to have abortions be a positive? Isn't it 
true that many women who have had abortions think abortion is wrong but 
that their circumstance were special enough to somehow mitigate that 
wrongness? Instead of seeing abortion as a morally wrong decision that is 
made acceptable because of circumstances would it not be better for people 
to simply think of abortion as a choice many women make with no remorse? 
Why the hostility to this? Am I incorrect in my belief that many women who 
have abortions still believe abortion to be wrong but somehow a lesser evil 
than banning abortions? I may be way off base here but I don't think so.

John Thornton