Charlotte Allen said it best about Michelman, trying to understand her: “I hate everything that Kate Michelman stands for and everything that she works for. But she is the woman she is today because her supposedly enlightened contemporaries of the 1970s sold her on the idea that abortion is the solution for a failure of love.” Helen Alvare added (in a piece I did on the occasion of Michelman stepping down as NARAL head), “I continue to believe that she had a desire to help women but completely misunderstood the awful costs of abortion.”