"[N]o self-respecting career-oriented peer who conceived out of wedlock would have considered bringing that pregnancy to term."

It seems like ancient history at this point, but as one who came of age as a 1970s Ivy Leaguer, no self-respecting career-oriented peer who conceived out of wedlock would have considered bringing that pregnancy to term.

And sacrifice the promise of a "good" marriage, rewarding career and children who would later be born to two involved, concerned, emotionally and financially secure parents? The tradeoff was not worth discussing.

--Bonnie Erbe, "A World Gone Mad", Scripps Howard News Service, 18 June 2007.

"I would rather ... fantasize about burying a machete in their head."

Apparently the crazies are out in full-swing today. Coming in from Union Station and walking to my job, I spotted a row of anti-abortion activists wielding their favorite favorite weapon - giant posters of bloody, dismembered fetuses...

Crazies just plain, old make me angry. I don't want to converse with them, I would rather just circle distantly around them like you do aggressive, screeching monkeys at th zoo, and fantasize about burying a machete in their head. FUCKERS.

--Her Royal Kainess, "Fetus Day", 4 April 2007.

"Why I Provide Abortions"

No one, neither the patient receiving an abortion, nor the person doing the abortion, is ever, at anytime, unaware that they are ending a life. We just don't believe that a developing embryo or fetus, whose mother cannot or will not accept it, has the same moral claims on us, claims to autonomy and justice, that an adolescent or adult woman has.

--William F. Harrison, "Why I Provide Abortions", Daily Kos, 31 May 2007.