<p>by <em>Kristen Walker Hatten</em></p>
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<p>I get this a lot, in e-mails and comments:</p>
<p>“Hey ‘Kristen,’ if that’s your REAL name. I read your dumb article because I have nothing better to do than read stuff I hate on the Internet. You’re always talking about how you used to be this big pro-choice liberal because you were uninformed and lost in the darkness or whatever. Well, how do we know you’re not uninformed NOW? How do we know you’re not just brainwashed and in two years you’ll be writing for Jezebel and condemning your dumb pro-life self? Will the real Kristen please stand up?” <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2020" title="Permanent Link: Pro-choice: Why I’m never going back" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(1962 words, estimated 7:51  mins reading time)</i></span></p></div>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Pro-choice: Why I’m never going back</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2020" title="Permanent Link: Pro-choice: Why I’m never going back" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (1962 words, estimated 7:51  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2020,"date":"2013-06-27T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2013-08-15T20:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T00:46:03","slug":"pro-choice-why-im-never-going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Pro-choice: Why I\u2019m never going back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<em>Kristen Walker Hatten<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I get this a lot, in e-mails and comments:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey \u2018Kristen,\u2019 if that\u2019s your REAL name. I read your dumb article because I have nothing better to do than read stuff I hate on the Internet. You\u2019re always talking about how you used to be this big pro-choice liberal because you were uninformed and lost in the darkness or whatever. Well, how do we know you\u2019re not uninformed NOW? How do we know you\u2019re not just brainwashed and in two years you\u2019ll be writing for Jezebel and condemning your dumb pro-life self? Will the real Kristen please stand up?\u201d <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2020\" title=\"Permanent Link: Pro-choice: Why I\u2019m never going back\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(1962 words, estimated 7:51  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Pro-choice: Why I\u2019m never going back<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2020\" title=\"Permanent Link: Pro-choice: Why I\u2019m never going back\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (1962 words, estimated 7:51  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-choice: Why I\u2019m never going back - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro-choice: Why I\u2019m never going back - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by\u00a0Kristen Walker Hatten I get this a lot, in e-mails and comments: \u201cHey \u2018Kristen,\u2019 if that\u2019s your REAL name. 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