Have your views on abortion changed?

[Buzz cook]

140. At first I was ambivalent.

I came of age in the early 70s and abortion wasn't as big a deal as it is now. Conservative groups such as the Southern Baptists had come out in favor of Roe vs Wade when the ruling came down.

There were objections of course but they were outside of the main stream. Except of course for the Catholic church.

As the decade wore on the anti abortion movement grew and became more fervent. I didn't know that this was due to a careful l campaign to frame abortion as a moral and xtian issue.

I was nonplussed because in my opinion we were talking about a tiny bundle of cells verses a woman's ability to live her life in a manner of her choosing.

Fast forward to the 80s, that's when I heard an anti abortion activist say the birth control should be illegal to. I was shocked to my core. Why be against one of the thing that prevent abortions? It was that craziness that started me being more active and more watchful of the zealots that wanted to end the right to choose.

Finally the assassination of Dr. George Tiller set my opinion in philosophical stone.
Any study of Tillers work reveals that if any abortion was necessary it was the ones that Tiller performed. Tiller, without exaggeration. a good man doing medically important work who became a secular martyr.

I now believe that the anti abortion movement is evil, regardless of the motives of its members. The only people who should be involved in the decison on abortion is the woman involved and her doctor. To quote Joe Biden, period, full stop.