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Showing Original Post only (View all)Andrea Mitchel just stopped a guest who ID'd herself as "pro-life"... [View all]
...and told her: "What I call anti-abortion...". Bravo Andrea.
As a grade school student in the mid-'60s when abortions were illegal, my mother was my prime political influence, and legalizing abortion was one of her central causes. I'll never forget one afternoon, when I got off the school bus and found my mother in the house crying openly.
Fearing something terrible had happened, I asked her what was wrong. She pointed out an article in the local newspaper describing the death of an area woman who hemorrhaged from a botched coat hanger abortion.
Something terrible had indeed happened, and people like Mitchel's guest would have been fine with that. She didn't deserve to call herself "pro-life", and Mitchel did what so many others in her line of work should begin doing.
Stop letting these people identify themselves as effin life savers.