[mountaineer]

"Samantha," I explained, ever the politically vigilant parent, "Mommy is pregnant. But since Jasmine's only 2 and I'm not married anymore, this just isn't a good time to have a baby. We're lucky women have a choice."

I wonder whether Samantha and Jasmine ever wonder what it would have been like to know their little brother or sister, who would be 24 today.

I wonder what he or she might have become.

[Skooz]

I wonder what he or she might have become.

You can drive yourself crazy thinking like that. The art, literature, science, education, productivity and vitality lost since January 1973 is incalcuable. All thanks to Justice Blackmun's emanating penumbra.