What is not debatable (for me) is who has the right to decide about abortions: the right answer (short or long) is the woman. If the debate is still on that level with this group, then let's have that debate.
Perhaps it's saying too much to say that the woman choosing is the right answer. Let's just say that right now there is no better answer. To say that the woman has this right only if she chooses abortion for the right reasons is to take away that right. If there's debate about this, then let's have that debate.
What is debatable for me is whether it makes sense for the left to organize around and champion a politically correct emotion to have following an abortion or about abortion: pride, indifference, sadness, etc. And the answer to this is a resounding NO. Not only because it works tactically to our disadvantage, but because how a woman feels about/after an abortion is going to vary with the woman, with why she had an abortion, with what happened during the abortion, with whether she has children or not, and on, and on, and on. This isn't about ideas. This is about real people with real lives and real histories and real experiences. It is no more sensible for the left to package all that up and put it on a T-shirt than it is for the right to do so.
I am fifty, menopausal, and have never had an abortion. I completely support a woman's right to have an abortion if she feels it is necessary, but I could not wear a t-shirt saying "I had an abortion." I couldn't do it because it is counter factual. I couldn't do it because I think it's a piece of tactical idiocy. Making such a t-shirt (or other artifact) the latest pro-choice mobilization tactic divides women for no sensible gain.
Let's mobilize around the availablity of abortion, around federal support of contraceptive distribution, availibility, and education, around subsidized day care. Those are worth a fight. Fighting around the politically correct abortion emotion is a bad, bad idea.
Joanna