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Really. I'm getting tired of this. Haven't we heard from enough women who were relieved to have had an abortion, who felt, once again, like they and not biology were in control of their lives?
Abortion is a medical procedure, like the removal of a tumor or an appendectomy. That's all it is. It is neither good nor bad. It is simply a medical procedure. Don't give me sanctimonious mealymouthing about how it stops a beating heart. So do bullets and bombs and deadly viruses and famines and genocides and the kinds of diseases and dehydration that come from being trapped in a hurricane shelter for weeks without adequate food, water, or services, and I don't see the neocons wringing their hands about all those poor dead children, all those poor wasted little souls, in Iraq and Palestine and the Congo and the West Side neighborhoods of Chicago.
No, it takes no effort whatever to lament the fate of theoretical people, with whose flesh-and-blood existence--and religious and cultural differences, and poverty, and actual need--the anti-abortion crowd is not faced. We need to ask this question over and over again: if you don't give a damn about the children now here on earth, how can you pretend to care about the souls of those who have not yet arrived? Go wave bloody pictures of children's bodies stacked like dolls in trucks in front of the White House and leave the abortion clinics alone.
