the limits of choice

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Sep 22, 2006

Now I've seen everything: Ellen Goodman has discovered circumstances in which she does not support legal abortion.

Yes, when a woman is bound and gagged and delivered at gunpoint to the abortion clinic, even Ellen Goodman notices that something is wrong. Moreover, she assures us, the US Supreme Court wouldn't approve, either. Abortion, she intones, must always be the woman's free choice.

Which demonstrates that Ellen Goodman has never stood outside a clinic and watched the sobbing young women being pushed by angry boyfriends, the teenagers shaking their heads as embarrassed mothers drag them toward the door...