There’s an odd disconnect many “pro-lifers” seem to exhibit between their ideology and their personal understanding of the difficult decisions they, too, sometimes face. One thinks of the more-than-a-few Republicans who are part of the “fetus-fetish” community but who support embryonic stem cell research because a family member or someone they know has a debilitating disease, or the more-than-infrequent anecdotal reports of anti-choice activists seeking abortions – often at the same clinics they themselves had been picketing! – because their situations were somehow “different”. From Jeanette at the blog “Oh, How I Love Jesus Because He First Loved Me” (yes, really) comes another example, moving in its own way, but strangely indifferent to the idea that others might have similar thoughts.

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