Some Abortion Foes Forgo Politics for Quiet Talk

[MountainLaurel]

NYT article about those "crisis pregnancy centers":

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The eight women sat in a semicircle facing a wooden cross, reflecting on the abortions they said they had never gotten over.

Though they now opposed abortion, they criticized the demonstrators who protest outside clinics.

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The women in this Bible study, a postabortion recovery group, are far from the public battles over abortion laws and the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. But in their quiet way, they represent a dimension of the anti-abortion movement that is just as passionate and far-reaching, consisting not of protesters or political activists but of Christian therapy groups, crisis pregnancy centers, adoption ministries, and support programs for single mothers and their children.

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The group here in Louisville - eight women gathered on a Saturday morning, each with her own box of tissues - suggests the breadth of this part of the movement. The group, called Free Indeed, is part of A Woman's Choice Resource Center, which says it has an annual budget of $900,000 and provides free ultrasound and other services, including counseling, diapers, baby clothes and adoption referrals, to more than 4,000 women a year.

Estimates of the number of such places, often called crisis pregnancy centers, range from 2,300 to 3,500 nationwide, compared with about 1,800 abortion providers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/national/16abortion.html?hp&ex=1137387600&en=30a167e9de460750&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Caoimhe]

1. I've decided to start my own group

The "REGRETS" group. We gather every other day to talk about everything we've done in our lives that we regret. I can start off with my regrets about having cut my toenails too short. My friend will then follow with her regrets over having had her wisdom teeth pulled. She's pretty sure she would have been fine with keeping them and the dentist lied to her. Another friend regrets having had sex with her professor, as it didn't help her grades any.

Sorry, I can't help it. I get so tired of people who had FREE CHOICE and FREE WILL, that regret their decisions later.. thinking they have ANY say in how OTHERS live their lives. For every woman who regrets an abortion, there are probably 10 who don't. We just don't hear from them.

[Nobody]

2. Damn! I wish I hadn't

gotten up so early this morning. Now I'll pass a law that says that everyone must sleep in until noon.