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Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

- Katha Pollitt
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Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.

Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.

Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.

Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

It's a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who's against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They've tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn't support any of that.

We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

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Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.