Saturday, August 20, 2005

A Tale of Abortion, No Regrets, No Guilt

Carla at Preemptive Karma strikes a blow against the stigma attached to abortion by sharing her story and challenging the conservative line which holds that women pay for abortion with a lifetime of guilt and regret.

As one of their excuses for banning abortion, the anti-choice set has insisted that abortion lays too heavy a burden of guilt on the woman. They say that many women wear this guilt like a millstone and we have to protect young women from this unbearable weight.

I've never experienced that guilt. Not once.

Via Another Link Round-Up.. at Feministe, which has yet more great reads