This article.

I wholeheartedly agree that we need more openness about abortion. There's so much focus on the wrong things. The "tip of the iceberg" things. Distractions: "hey look over here! don't look at those facts! what if Obama had been aborted! (with no consideration of what-if-Dick-Cheney-had-been-aborted etc. etc.)" There's a "stop-halfway!" notion to all the thinking.

For instance, could we look at why abortions happen? And I don't mean "by having sex!" That's like saying eating causes obesity.

>>Well, yes. And, no!


Also, and this really gets to me, the notion that women should be screened or ask themselves about their mental health and emotional preparedness for an abortion. Okay, fine. Good. But what about the alternative of raising a child? I'd think mental health would be better to consider there, if it's to be brought into the picture at all.

I think this article's good to bring abortion up, but the main issue is that abortion is a just another decision in lives composed of decisions and this often gets lost in the gendered nature of the issue as well as the hyper-politicization.