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At AL.com, Frances Coleman, who believes that abortion is wrong, struggles with why she finds the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade disturbing. It’s a powerful article worth your while. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
It may be immoral to gamble away your paycheck, but it’s not illegal. And it is, in my and many others’ view, immoral to strap a person to a gurney and kill him, but it’s perfectly legal.
There was a time when the members of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed above partisan politics. But that’s only a memory now, as this most recent decision clearly shows.
On a related issue, Badtux reports that one of his friends is fed up with the purists, those self-proclaimed “progressives” who refuse to vote if they don’t find a candidate perfect in every way. Here’s a snippet from that article:
My own opinion on abortion was framed by an experience on my college years.
A friend of mine had what was then termed a “pregnancy scare.” (It eventually turned out to be false alarm and no, I was in no way involved.) But, as I watched the agony and torment and worry that she endured for those two or thee short weeks, I realized that whatever she decided, the decision was rightly hers and no one else’s.
