[lbo-talk] "I Had an Abortion"

[John Thornton]

>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>I have my differences with Yoshie, but that wasn't a piece of 
>>self-indulgent crap. Unless you think abortion is a trivial issue, which 
>>it isn't.
>No abortion is not trivial and I believe in a person's right to choose but 
>to have an abortion for no other reason than not wanting the child is 
>trivialising abortion and life to the extent of absurdity and contempt.
>
>Gary?

How? I think making a conscious decision NOT to bring another life into 
this word because the person does not feel they are ready to be a parent is 
not trivializing life but rather realizing the gravity of the decision. 
Many people have children with little thought about how things are going to 
be in reality. Your thinking is that abortion is bad but the alternative is 
worse so it is the lesser of two evils. That is the thinking that needs to 
go away. Having an abortion is not bad, evil or morally questionable. 
People need to quite making judgements of this kind about a decision that 
is a private matter.

John Thornton