Pro-life and

pro-choice

“I’m pro-life and pro-choice,” my daughter said, as she straddled the canyon of thought that divides our nation. I was reminded of a conversation I had, a quarter of a century ago, with a woman at a community fair on Third Avenue in New York City. She was angry about abortion and her attitude was that pro-choice advocates were pro-abortion. In those days, the abortion rights movement was just starting to re-frame the rhetoric about abortion rights to the right to choose.

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