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July 18, 2004 LIVES When One Is Enough By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. Growing up with a single mother, I was always buying into the myth that I was going to be seduced in the back of a pickup truck and become pregnant when I was 16. I had friends...

Ginger Ekselman, who once had an abortion, plans to confront Julia Black's controversial documentary. Thank you, Julia Black. Even if watching your film, My Foetus, is the hardest thing I ever do, I know I have to do it. Like you, I grew up strongly pro-choice, in the era of women's liberation. Like you, I found out I was pregnant in my early 20s, at the end of my degree. Like you, I had an abortion. I was majoring in women's studies at the time. I thought I knew about abortion. A close friend had done her social work placement...

Bill Clinton has warned Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, to counter Republican efforts to turn this year's election into a debate on gay marriage and other "cultural issues" such as gun control and abortion. In an interview with the Financial Times, the former US president urged Senator Kerry to fight a values-based campaign focused on health, education and crime. If he stayed on that ground, Mr Kerry could win by "quite a nice margin". < clip >

The counties in red on this map has a total population of 44,000,000 (Forty-Four Million) – the number of reported surgical abortions since the Roe v Wade decision of 1973. Freeper allthingsnew e-maied it to me and asked if I could post it. Here it is for your consideration.