"Abortion Saved My Life"--a good and though-provoking read at Salon

This is a very moving post by a woman at Salon.com. I think this really gets at the crux of the problem with creating a hard ethical line against any abortion ever. This is also why the "health of the mother" argument often breaks down in practice; sometimes, you have a doctor on call who simply refuses to treat the grown up patient in favor of supposedly "protecting" a future patient that may or may not grow to term. A woman was severely hemorrhaging in front of him and several medical students and they chose a potential person over an actual, living one.

It's a good read: http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/05/26/abortion_saved_my_life/index.html

Read this whole transcript of Bill O'Reilly "debating" rapper Common's invitation to the WH with Jon Stewart. Mostly so you can really feel this punchline at the end:


STEWART: Let me tell you something. That's not the only thing you like. I'm like a shot of Levittown right in your ass, like a B-12, boom.
O'REILLY: I think I'm going to commit suicide.

Here's the entire transcript.