I find it notable that many of the left-leaning pacifists who are
beginning to speak out about abortion are childless. Childless, too, the writers, editors, and artists of the alternative media, and the political activists who cross the country to speak. Just who, I wonder, will be scooting over to make room? Well, corporations should, of course, and the defense budget, and suburban consumers and the rich everywhere. And if they don’t? Who moves over, buys another bag of groceries, opens the hide-a-bed for a million more poor mouths and their million poor mommies? You, him, her, over there, cough up, fork it over — my own home is cozy enough. I can’t.
Abortion has been carried to an extreme. My research often takes
me to the netherland of medical texts — I see the pictures, blink twice at the research abortion has, in passing, made possible. I
