and I had girlfriends who worked for doctors that got them. And well done abortions and got themselves admitted to the hospital right afterwards.

But poor women everywhere will seek any way they can find to get them. If they can't find anyone they can find a clothes hanger. And they will do that in desperation. There was a time in my life that I knew I'd rather be dead than pregnant.

Anyone who feels that way has no business raising a baby. And shouldn't have to.

But this is not a moral war. It is a war against women pure and simple. If women have legal and easy access to abortion then they are not so easily controlled. And any woman wanting out of a bad marriage who becomes pregnant is desperate. And never forget that men deliberately try to make you pregnant to keep you just where you are. Dependent. On them.

And the worst offenders are the women who had to get married or were dumped are the most vicious when their daughters become pregnant. You are going to have this baby or else. I did and so are you. They do not want their daughters to escape and have a different life than they have had. So it is still hatred of the baby they had to have.

doesn't have issues with Christianity. She has issues with a particular BRAND of Christianity--the fundamentalist literalist brand, which is strongly anti-woman.

I DO have problems with Paul--or, rather the Paul who constantly tells women to sit down and shut up and obey their husbands because God made them dictators in the home.  I say "the Paul" because most reputable scholars believe that Paul's epistles weren't written by the reformed Saul of Tarsus who had  seizure on the road to Damascus, but by several different men, each with his own point of view and a particular drum to bang.

I don't hate Christianity or Christians, but object strongly to what has been done to women in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.  HE never demeaned woman.  He treatd women as equals to be respected--and if the Gnostic Gospels have validity (and they have as much claim to it as the ones that made the Official Cut at Nicea), His beloved disciple was a woman he loved deeply (and may have married; that's possibly the ONLY truth in the DaVInci Code--in that time period, a rabbi like Jesus was expected to be married, unless he was an Essene which Jesus wasn't).

One of my acquaintances summed it up well: "Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed respected and honored women and treated them like equals.  Then their followers, who weren't nearly that enlightened, came along and fucked it all up."

Or herbs and weed therapy.  

Just don't try it too long.  Maybe about two days. :-)