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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (511)	9/6/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

<<< I, and I'm relatively sure others as well, can see that abortion is near and dear to your heart.>>> Well, no, I think in the sense you mean, it is not, to me, personally. And I have no connection to the "choice" movement. I don't believe in late term abortions. I have never had an abortion. I had one miscarriage, and it was a profound disappointment to me. Not as great a one as if a child of mine had died, if you take my meaning; but I wanted another child, and wept when I miscarried. What is near and dear to my heart is not forcing desperate women to choose between having clusters of cells become babies in their bodies or going to butchers for help, because a religious faction has gotten the government to forbid them access to safe, early abortion. My mother worked as a nurse in an emergency room during her training. She saw the coat-hanger women with eight children at home come in bleeding to death. She saw a thirteen year old girl bleed to death because she was more afraid of her parents than of a knitting needle. These experiences made her a believer in safe, legal abortion. I had a personal friend who had a kitchen table abortion, unanesthetized, so hideous I will not describe the details here. What is most dear to my heart is not having people use the government to force their religious precepts down the throat of non-believers in their ideas. It's simple: get the government off the lining of my uterus. It's private property.