As usual, Irin Carmon at Salon.com tells it like it is:
It’s not that I don’t understand why people, including pro-choice
organizations, like to talk about rape or life endangerment exceptions.
They illustrate how incredibly cruel opponents to abortion are, how
divorced they are from the difficult and knotty circumstances of real
life. And they help people who can’t understand what kind of woman has
an abortion — despite that real 1-in-3 statistic — realize that all
kinds of women have abortions, including ones they find sympathetic.
Women who have abortions have been so demonized that storytelling helps
make that essential empathic leap that so many people are missing. But
as Akin shows, once you start haggling over reasons, you’re giving up
half the fight — which is that this is about bodily autonomy and respect
for women’s ability to determine their own lives.
You can read the entire column here.
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