For a good thirty years or more, each month, a woman faces the fact that she is either pregnant or not pregnant.  

You bleed or you don't bleed.

Or you worry that you haven't bled.

Or you hope/pray that you won't bleed.

Even if you aren't having sex, you are reminded monthly that you are not pregnant.

It is a normal part of our lives.  

How often do men think about pregnancy? How regularly do men think of pregnancy?

Pregnancy, birth control, and abortion are not issues that we can have the luxury of waxing philosophic about and making grand pronouncements for the masses.

We do not have the luxury of deciding if abortion can be a "winning strategy" or if the word "abortion" should be considered "horrible" and swept under the carpet.

It's all too real for us.

Thanks, stormcoming, for pointing this out.