SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: Recently a young woman cited Ani DiFranco as a role model, and affirmed her belief in the abortion license. This has been one of DiFranco’s causes for a while. But I couldn’t help thinking of some lyrics that don’t exactly fit in to the whole “it’s not a child, it’s a choice” worldview. …I have a very hard time maintaining anything close to a stable personal identity over time; I doubt and regret actions almost as soon as I take them. And so it’s all the more striking to me that since spring of 1997, when I first started thinking I might have to oppose abortion, I have only become more convinced that the pro-life stance is the stance of human rights, hope, social justice, and love of embodied rather than abstracted life.