Trusting Women

Driving home last week, a woman with a sign reading "I regret my abortion" was standing quietly on the corner outside the clinic. . . . My first thought was "wow, what an intensely personal thing to be sharing with the 6 o'clock rush hour on Boulevard." What was underlying my discomfort with this message was not that it was just another sign in the window of the anti-choice movement, but that in no other area of our lives are women so freely permitted or expected or encouraged to express regret, much less put it on display in the public forum. I then began thinking about what is different or special about abortion as a choice. RH Reality Check, LifeNews