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One more thing...

I really don't want this blog to become focused on the abortion issue, but it keeps coming up somehow or other, and it's one of those issues that really needs to be talked about.

Today we received a newsletter from a trustworthy family friend.  It included the following excerpt from a Winnipeg Free Press article, which I thought was worth sharing:

...pro-choicers are wrong to dress up abortion as a woman's only choice, and pro-lifer's are wrong to insist that women who choose abortion are "baby killers".  No one gets an abortion for the pleasure of it.

In all likelihood, abortion will eliminate itself once truth is allowed a fair and open hearing.  Central to that hearing is at least one pointedly feminist question that has been displaced by a debate that defines itself only in terms of freedom, rights and privacy:

Is it really in a woman's best interest to thwart or destroy the creative force with which they are uniquely endowed?

Somewhere on the way to making children accessories to fashion or obstacles to liberated libidos, the women's movement lost sight of the one thing women do that all earth's men combined cannot.  They bear life.  That is nothing to wink at, or toss into an incinerator with sutures, ruined organs and bloody rags.

If any other creature one earth were so meticulously destroying its own offspring--and wreaking who knows what havoc on the gene pool--we'd declare a national state of emergency, convene special commissions and enjoy a spate of Hollywood consciousness-raising movies... ("Pro-choice march 'ulgy and uglier'", Winnipeg Free Press, April 28, 2004)

The Winnipeg Free Press website requires a paid subscription, so I was not able to find a link to the complete text of the article, nor verify whether this article appeared in the paper or not.  If anyone can help with this, it would be appreciated.

That being said, it's an interesting point whether published or not.