Mind your own damn business.

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31. I fear I may have responded in a knee jerk way because...

...to date the people I have encountered who assert that abortion is used as a primary method of birth control have been anti-abortion males promoting the notion that legal and safe abortions would create some sort of sodom and gomorrah.

I apologize for my McCarthyesque query. I am ashamed of that sort of response. I've been on DU for over 20 years because discussion here is generally better than that.

You are of course correct to point out that abortion is in fact a form of birth control in that it terminates a pregnancy. But I stand by my assertion that access to information and access to effective methods of birth control for all girls and women would make abortion a more rare method of last resort. And that is how I have always interpreted Hillary Clinton's quote

I believe abortion should be safe, legal and rare, and when I say 'rare,' I mean rare!

And I also stand by my personal experience with women who have had abortions. For everyone I've talked to about it (including my own experience) it was a difficult decision. In some cases, a very difficult decision that it took many years to fully come to terms with. Life would have been far easier if birth control had been available to them without restriction, in an easily accessible clinic, and without cost.