I do not necessarily share Shepherd's views, but I respect her for having the courage to share her feelings and thoughts when this is the type of "criticism" she receives for doing so. It is interesting that we are all for respecting women who share their stories who are happy and satisfied with their decisions to have abortions. The fact is, not everyone is, regardless of their religious persuasions. I know we don't like to hear about those instances because we ignorantly perceive them to be a threat to the freedom of choice. In my opinion, women like Shepherd are entitled to as much respect as every other woman.

In Precious Times and on The View, Sherri Shephard did something very few women do. She spoke her personal truth about her experiences with abortion, and she did it publicly. She shared her reasons for her decisions and her feelings about her experiences, and she talked about how she found healing and relief after a long period of guilt and shame. I believe her story, and I applaud the bravery she showed by sharing it. By sharing her personal story, she provided comfort and inspiration for many other women with similar experiences, values and beliefs.

The attacks she is receiving from critics on all sides of the issue is what happens to every woman who tells the truth about her own abortion experience – it happens to women who feel grateful, confident, liberated and relieved, to those who feel sadness, shame, grief and confusion, and especially to those who experience all of those emotions. This is stigma. This is the product of the abortion war.

There will never be one face or one story to represent all of the women who have had abortions. The truth is, each person’s experience with abortion is unique. I believe that it is their voices that should lead the discussion about abortion in this country.

Join Exhale, www.4exhale.org, and the growing pro-voice movement, and help create a social climate in which each person's unique experience is supported, respected and free from stigma. Together, we can shift the culture of fear and intimidation, and create one in which a woman who dares to speak her truth, as Sherri Shephard did, isn't attacked for it, but is supported and respected.

I think Jessica Wakeman is being way too harsh about something that was said in a magazine. Sherri told you what she completely said. Does she not have a right to speak her mind? Does she not have the right to say how she feels about the things that have went on in her life? It wasn't like she was commenting on someone else's life. No one can judge us but God.

There is not ONE Christian view of the resurrection. There is no overall doctrine, and the idea of the resurrection of the physical body has pretty much been long discarded, by Protestants, anyway. Even C.S. Lewis, whom you use to support your point, didn't believe in it.

And for whoever said C.S. Lewis was a "whack job," you are not well-informed. He was a Christian with a brain and a logical mind that needs to be dealt with using reason, not name-calling. Have you read what he wrote, or just created opinions based on your own prejudice against Christians? Look at Christianity from the inside - I don't find I can believe in it, but I understand it. Bigotry is bigotry.

What I find alarming about this is that there is no uproar about her abusive relationships, the state that she was in that led her to all these abortions. Why no outrage over the cause? People are so upset by abortion that they fly into a rage when a woman has had multiple of them, yet they don't fly into a rage that the same woman was a victim of physical and psychological abuse?

I think coming clean add more power to Sherri. If God forgives her then who to judge her.

"It's a tactic of the religious right to frame fetuses, even ones only weeks old and thoroughly incapable of life outside the womb, as the 'pre-born.'"

Interesting how feminists treat "pre-cancerous" growths as real cancer and urge all women to do the same.

Interesting, too, how feminists celebrate late-term abortions when the mother's health is at risk (her "health" being her mental state, like: "Sheeeit! I don't want the hassle of caring for a bambino!"). Of course, they think nothing of forcing males into fatherhood no matter how negatively the emotional impact.

Fembots are, of course, hypocrites. They cheerily show pictures of women who've died after self-performed (or ineptly-done-by-others) abortions, yet cry Foul! when others show similar photos of late-term (or even "normal") abortions.

Supposedly "life-affirming" feminists treat abortion as a sacrament. They care only about adult women's freedoms...not the freedom of men or fetuses.

How do they console a women who WANTED a child whose fetus arrived prematurely and died?

Do they tell a woman who finds out she's pregnant that the "thing" inside her isn't human? That she shouldn't knit booties or pick names unless and until the "lump" exits her body?

What is a fetus, then: A tumor? Polyp?

Science progresses while feminists laud the Dark Ages. How can a fetus NOT be human? What happens when medicine discovers more and more about fetuses like is has in utero sensations and impacts?

As for "viability," how many babies can live with the care and attention of other humans? That long-term care and dependency is what separates us from reptiles. Yet supposedly "caring" feminists insist something is human only when it can live outside the womb. What arrogance! What selfishness! Why have incubators or in-utero surgery? Just say that unless and until a baby can make it's own way in the world it can be killed at will.

Of course, they don't give a hoot about fetuses or men or anyone but themselves.

What do feminists say about state-ordered abortions in China when fetuses are female? Do they go, "Tut-tut: It can't be female because it's not born yet. It's only a neutral gloop that gets excised, like an internal wart." ?

Like most self-centered feminist thinking, they want the individual woman to determine when life is "real"...just like they want to say when harassment occurs based on who harasses and how the "victims" feel about that person (butt-grabs by hunks are considered "cool"). Thank goddess few women made laws. Otherwise speed limits would be determined by how fast one "feels" like going. And executions would increase during queenly PMS times.