Monday, April 30, 2007

Stories

As I've long said, ultimately the country is very pro-choice-for-me-but-not-for-thee. People assume that they, personally, will be able to make sensible reproductive and health decisions with their doctors, but are "uncomfortable" with the thought of other people making decisions they don't approve of and therefore there's more support for chipping away at these things around the edges. People fail to understand that such things have the potential to affect them personally, and fail to understand that Judge Santorum or someone will be intervening in their private medical decisions.

Ultimately, brave people are going to have to stand up and start talking about their personal experiences with these things in a way which communicates "this could happen to you" to people.