Does Kate Michelman’s piece in the Sunday LATimes leave you with the impression that her abortion activism is of the deeply painful, intensely person kind, such that her attitude toward details–about how abortion itself might hurt women, how teens get caught up in it, how there “women deserve better“–all be “be damned,” just as long as abortion is legal, period?

I say this chiefly because of how she transitions from her family breakdown and her spousal consent experience to notification in Casey. And how she manages to discuss notification without mentioning the issue of parental notification in the case of minors that was in the news a bit in California lately.