Women urge others to go public about abortions

[Liberal_in_LA]

Women urge others to go public about abortions


PALO ALTO -- Harriett Hills Stinson, 85, a prominent member of the wealthy San Francisco family that founded Hills Bros. Coffee, says it took a push by GOP conservatives to cut funding for family planning and abortion services to move her to reveal a long-held personal secret: She once had an illegal abortion.

"I've never regretted it," Stinson told The Chronicle this week. As a mother in her 20s with three young children, Stinson said, she came to the decision that "for the sake of my family, it was not right for me to have a fourth child." Now, she said, "I'm hoping women who have had abortions will come forward."

On Wednesday, Stinson was honored as national, state and Bay Area supporters of abortion and reproductive rights gathered on the Peninsula for their annual Power of Choice lunch sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation's largest abortion and reproductive rights advocacy group.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/MN7C1LGRIP.DTL#ixzz1aghigWEX

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[alp227]

2. Jackie Speier made such a speech on the House floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz5DZJgclKQ

Good on Stinson and NARAL. That'll scare off obsessively self-important men who can NOT stand a woman who doesn't fit their archaic, greedy ideals.

[itsallhappening]

4. Will it scare off "obsessively self-important" women

"who can NOT stand a woman who doesn't fit their archaic, greedy ideals"?

[alp227]

5. OK, basically anyone who thinks having an abortion = bad person

will get a heart attack if more women spoke out like this.

[itsallhappening]

6. If you say so.

[itsallhappening]

3. I thought it was simply a "privacy" issue.

[kestrel91316]

7. It's about privacy for those who wish for medical privacy. But it's also ALWAYS

about the right to self-determination and freedom from forced childbearing.

[jwirr]

8. Why do they want women to go public?