As an abortion provider (MD) I performed an early first trimester abortion on a college senior some years ago. She had been seen a number of times among protestors at my clinic, and prior to her procedure she had told a clinic counselor that she was the president of her campus "pro-life" organization. Think about that. That must mean that she was one of their most committed and hardest agitators against legal and safe professional abortion care for several years, but when she got pregnant herself, she was in the clinic having an abortion within a week of her positive pregnancy test.
After I completed her abortion, I matter-of-factly asked her what she was now going to do about her affiliation with that anti-choice club. Startled, she gasped, sat abruptly upright on the operating table, and with horrified expression blurted out in a tremulous voice, . . .
40 Million Votes
To reiterate. They are women who've had abortions. Who and where are the women who've had abortions? I'm one. Look around you. There is definitely a woman within earshot of you right now that's had an abortion. But, you say, there's no "slutty" looking women around me now. I'm at work. Or, I'm in church. Or, I'm at the gym.
We're there though. You can't avoid us. And to you politicians and candidates paying attention out there. Women who've had abortions are on your staff. They are relatives. They are friends, relatives, co-workers, volunteers, Republicans, Democrats, etc. Women who've had abortions are everywhere.
Yup. 40 million votes. They're laying on the table. Who wants them? And who are these 40 million votes?
Women who've had abortions, that's who.
These numbers could mean victory for Obama-Biden in the upcoming Presidential election. And these 40 million women already voted pro-choice. They voted with their feet by walking into a clinic.
40 million votes.
The estimates of the Evangelical Christians that supposedly won the 2004 election for George Bush are only 20 million.
