As has been mentioned in the comments, Andrew Sullivan has been posting a series of actual stories from people’s experiences of facing into the difficulties of pregnancy and abortion. Whatever your position on these issues, these stories bring it home. The tangible reality of this whole nexus of painful and tender issues should not be ignored in the name of ethical flag-waving, as sometimes tends to be the case for people on all sides of the issue.
Here are all the posts so far:
- It’s So Personal
- It’s So Personal, Ctd
- The Catholic Mother
- The Trauma
- A Doctor’s View (reader reaction)
- A Target Of Terror
- The Regret
- Not Knowing For Sure
- When Principle Meets Reality
- Serial Abortions (reader reaction)
- Preparing For The Worst
- An Unforgiving Family (reader reaction)
- The Guilt
- Holding On
- The Gay Fathers
- What Guilt?
- Ectopic “Miscarriage”
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