Coming to Grips with Abortion

Some personal thoughts on an issue that has roiled American society for 50 years

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Pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2022

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Whatever there is to say about abortion, has been said. Whatever there is to say about anything, has been said. There is nothing new under the sun. Not really. More and more, I appreciate biography, autobiography — life stories. The personal.

In 2006, I gave a speech at the annual fundraising dinner of a crisis-pregnancy center. There was certainly nothing I could tell these people about abortion. They knew the issue backwards and forwards. So I told them about some of my own experiences.

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