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To: BillyKess
Irene Vilar worries that her self-described "abortion addiction" will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose.

I'd wonder how her thinking process is working here.

First, the pro-life movement (and just how in the name of Molech did "pro-life" make it into an article like this?) doesn't, as a rule, depend on extreme cases to make its arguments.

It doesn't grade on a curve. Even one run-of-the,-um,-mill abortion (let's put aside the hard cases, which in any case are no way to legitimize all abortions anyway) is one abortion too many. In other words, if you actually believe "safe, legal, and rare," you probably don't describe yourself as "pro-life."

Second, what if "the pro-life movement," trying to seize on this opportunity, nevertheless cynically "twists her self-described 'abortion addiction' to deny women the right to choose"?

Yes, I do expect a good number of "mildly pro-choice" people to be bothered by this story. I do mean the story itself here, not how it can be "twisted."

Still, though, I can see such people treating it simply as some tragic anomaly. Like, fifteen abortions by one woman is a bit much, but one abortion per woman (or, hey, even one abortion each for fifteen women) is, like, completely excusable! Don't you believe in choice, or are you an ignorant right-wing fundamentalist chauvinist pig who sends money to abortion clinic bombers????

So I can expect this brought up from time to time in the future. I just don't expect this to be some major rallying cause. If millions and millions of abortions don't bother you, what's fifteen?

Even so, I look forward to seeing some variety in pro-"choice" arguments. The old ones were getting stale.

Don't like abortions? Don't have one fifteen!

19 posted on 09/23/2009 3:30:42 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Lonely Bull

I knew a woman who claimed to have had eight. V’s wife.


20 posted on 09/23/2009 3:36:56 AM PDT by ventana
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