I have been told this a surprising number of times, but it never fails to stir my sympathy. I remember coming out.
It’s difficult now to describe the feeling I had then, in the winter of 2006, but I knew in my gut that a lot of things were about to change. As a recent convert, it had never occurred to me how much belief in abortion “rights” was part and parcel with the lifestyle I was leading then. I was in my twenties; I was an actor and writer, a self-described liberal feminist, and most of my friends were pot-smoking punk rockers, artists of various stripes, comics and entertainers, burgeoning intellectuals, and the like. I had a gut feeling my friends and fellows would have a hard time accepting this change of heart. Read more... (1138 words, estimated 4:33 mins reading time)
by Kristen Hatten<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m still in the pro-life\u00a0closet, and I don\u2019t know how to come out!\u201d<\/p>\n
I have been told this a surprising number of times, but it never fails to stir my sympathy. I remember coming out.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult now to describe the feeling I had then, in the winter of 2006,\u00a0but I knew in my gut that a lot of things were about to change.\u00a0As a recent convert, it\u00a0had never occurred to me how much belief in abortion \u201crights\u201d was part and parcel with the lifestyle I was leading then. I was in my twenties; I was an actor and writer, a self-described liberal feminist, and most of my friends were pot-smoking punk rockers, artists of various stripes, comics and entertainers, burgeoning intellectuals, and the like. I had a gut feeling my friends and fellows would have a hard time accepting this change of heart. Read more...<\/a> (1138 words, estimated 4:33 mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\nThis is a preview of
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