I am a liberal. I believe in a comprehensive, government-funded social welfare network, national health insurance, more spending on foreign aid, and a reduced military budget. I am also a liberal Jew. I believe in a symbolic interpretation of the Bible and support women’s and marriage equality within Judaism. My opinion of abortion first developed […]

When I was in my early twenties, I relinquished a child for adoption. When I became pregnant again, I decided to abort — partly because my experience relinquishing my firstborn was so isolating and unsupported. I still remember having a dream about aborted babies after the abortion. I began to do some research on fetal

Before my teenage pregnancy, I was never in favor of abortion. Bowing to my boyfriend’s decision to abort our baby compelled me to build an emotional wall. After I let abortion enter my life, there were two persons in me: the pro-choice feminist and the broken-hearted girl. The former was trying hard to convince herself

For as long as I had known about abortion, I had supported a woman’s right to choose abortion if she felt it necessary. I had been lukewarm on the issue, not really vocal or anything, but I was certainly pro-choice. I was a self-proclaimed feminist, after all, and I had left behind the morals my