Interesting. The Metropolitan doesn’t get a ton of love. My personal deathmatch hin these regards has always been the Safari vs. the Kaweco Sport, which I think provides a more interesting counterpoint.

The US hangup about abortion has nothing to do with bioethics or ethics of any kind. It has to do with too damn many idiotic Bible thumping low-IQ never got past high school morons who think religious fervor can and should take the place of sense, rationality, education and intelligence.