The irony of observing ancient tradition in an airplane

No one has the right to suck the way of living out of someone else, even if not doing so, means they die. If restrictions about abortion were truly about the life of another being, then we wouldn’t need permission from corpses to use their organs to save other people.

I read something long ago, by a woman who had gotten an abortion pre-Roe v. Wade, where afterward she said “I wanted to sing and dance.” That is how I felt—just utter relief that I had that behind me. I only regret that there is still so much insane shaming in our society that I am not brave enough to discuss it like…