Two noted Oregon women who prefer privacy to the public stage gave intensely personal speeches Saturday night on the importance of keeping abortion legal at a time of shifting political values. Mary Oberst, wife of Gov. Ted Kulongoski, and Portland writer Ursula K. Le Guin recalled before an audience of about 400 people the days when abortions were outlawed, and women lost jobs, got kicked out of school and were put at risk after getting pregnant. Oberst, addressing an abortion rights banquet in Portland, said younger women today don't fully appreciate what it was like before the U.S. Supreme Court...
