Earlier in the day, I wrote about a line from Joan Didion’s Magical Thinking play: “. . . and she needed an abortion.” A reader sent me to a most interesting post on a New Republic blog (here). The item is called “Finding the Right Words for Abortion.” It is about the Democratic-party platform. And we read, “. . . the single word ‘need’ is a dividing line between pro-choicers and moderate pro-lifers. Without that qualifier, pro-choicers consider abortion-reduction language to be a moral condemnation of abortion.” I think I got it.