Gal Throws "Abortion Party" to Pay For Abortion, Guy Blogs About It

I could not agree with you more (on every point). I, too, am pro-choice. And, while abortion is the not necessarily a choice I would make for myself, it certainly is every woman's God-given (or whatever) right to make that choice. Your body, your choice!!! Having said that, there are some things we do in our lives (chosen or not), that are more private--or should be! For example, for the sake of society's, my friends', and my mother's sanity, I tend not to discuss my sex life (fetishes, if you will) in great detail. I don't talk a lot about my birth control methods. I don't talk about the fact that sometimes I don't floss and sometimes I fall asleep without brushing my teeth (horror of horrors). I didn't talk to people about the choices my mother and I had to make when my father was dying. I also tend not to talk about my period or my bowel movements (although those are not choices so much). All of those topics seem to me to be private and probably information that my friends and family don't need--TMI as they say. And while I understand that none of these examples are analogous to the choice to have an abortion, I do equate their level of privacy. Honestly, unless you are my very best friend in the world (and my very best friend in the world did have to make this choice), or my mother (and my mother did have to make this choice), then I don't know if I want to know about it. My pro-choice view is that while it is a woman's right to choose, it is not a choice that should be taken lightly. I do believe a life is involved, two in fact--the baby's and the woman's--and I don't think that is something to celebrate. I find the whole thing disgusting. I think things like this set us back 2 decades rather than propel us forward. And Duncan seems pretty friggin neutral and dignified about all this!!

The impression I got from the article was that the party was mainly meant to pay for it, not to "celebrate" the abortion.

This whole controversy is just another sign that the religious people in our society need a hard lesson in why they should butt out of other people's business.

Jeff, if by "authors", you mean me as the author of this blog post, I actually wrote "terminating a pregnancy" not a life. Just to be clear.

Quite right, Hillary, you did say terminating a pregnancy. But, even if you had said terminating a life it would not have conflicted with the statement that you are pro-choice. Jeff, I think one--and by one I mean me--can believe it is a woman's right to choose and still believe that an abortion is the termination of a life. And believing it's the termination of a life doesn't mean one is necessarily equating the life of that embryo to the life of an adult, a child, or even a newborn. Furthermore, if we really get into semantics, the term "pro-life" in the opinion of many doesn't mean pro-life at all but anti-choice. Overall, I think it's possible with a topic like this to have wildly varying views and opinions about the details, the important point is that it is a woman's right to choose what happens to her body. TheExpatriate makes a good point, that the party was meant to raise money, but it sounds like abit of morbid celebration was taking place as well. And, in my humble opinion, blaming people who believe in G-d for the "controversy" is in and of itself an unfair judgment that leads to controversy. Some of us believe in G-d and believe in a woman's right to choose and don't judge people for those choices, just like we shouldn't be judged for having a system of belief. It's a woman's right to choose whether or not to have a baby and it's a human being's right to believe in G-d, or Science, or both. It's an awfully complex issue, and one in which I don't think we can't point fingers and say "its your group that causes it to be complex." For a woman, even if law never came into it, it's a difficult choice to make and that is what leads to its complexity. Some religious zealots have given the rest of us a bad name. It's always just a few that make it difficult for the rest. It's like the issues Pad presents in her post about the pastor...