The book is _The Girls Who Went Away_, and the blog is http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/03/breaking-silence-on-living-pro-lifers.html

You haven’t pointed out any inconsistency, lack of logic, or stupidity. You’re an ignorant fool, you’re the one who makes pro-choicers look incredibly stupid. Who doesn’t acknowledge that a fetus is alive? Life is being destroyed around you constantly with no one considering it, why would anyone need to consider all life being destroyed? Why would anyone be unwilling to admit that they care more about convenience than a life that happens to carry a human genome but not much else? Many fetuses die without anyone knowing they’re pregnant but no one takes a test and holds a funeral for each of them. If you’re going to throw around words like “life” and “human” define them and explain why anyone should care about them.

Are these all of your reasons, Hemant? Are there more? Sometimes when I hear people – especially politicians – talking about decreasing abortion frequency, I get the feeling that part of the reason (perhaps feigned) is some sort of consideration for the life being destroyed. But I personally don’t get why a rational informed pro-choicer would care about this. We have no reason at all to believe the fetus will experience any kind of suffering beyond what an insect might feel upon being stepped on the millisecond before it’s life ends.

@RonBrown – That was a extroadinarily inconsistent comment. If you believe that a fetus MAY experience suffering similar to an insect being killed, and you acknowledge that insects are alive, then you have to acknowledge that a fetus is alive. And if a fetus is at one point alive, even if only briefly, why wouldn’t Hemant or any politician feel consideration for a life being destroyed?

If you are going to be pro-choice, fine – but at least attempt to use some sense of logic so you don’t make pro-choicers look incredibly stupid or admit that you are only pro-choice because you care more about your own convenience than the life of another human.

Like Amy, I am an adoptee. Every adoptee I know, including myself, has emotional issues because of it. I was born in the late 60s (i.e. before Roe v. Wade). I am told that my bio mother was 15 when I was born. And I often wonder what horrors she might have endured because she had no choice. I’m happy to be here, but I have this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I am here at someone else’s expense.

There is no easy solution to any of this. And giving children to a church group for indoctrination is a frightening prospect to me.

That said, yes, it’s better than bombing clinics and murdering doctors. Maybe it will be of help to women who already share this group’s beliefs.

I just believe making blanket statements about people’s intentions or personal thoughts doesn’t help anyone.

One thing I’ve realized recently is that, even if we make contraceptives free and widely distributed, along with thorough education programs about their use, aborting pregnancies will still be a necessary medical procedure. I am pro-choice but I no longer follow the Democratic plank of “safe, legal, and rare”. I’ll stick with “safe and legal” and leave the value judgment for individual morality.

(I’m imagining the Surgeon General advocating that coronary bypass surgeries should be “more rare”, instead of advocating that we lower the incidents of heart disease)