That the Washington post’s web site entitled “John Edwards on the issues” should begin with his stand on abortion, that abortion is seriously allowed to be an issue of such magnitude in this supposedly “advanced” civilization, and that there are those who continue to view the termination of a pregnancy in the most simplistic of terms Manichean, says to me that we have not come all that much further than those cultures that keep women in chador or stone them as adulterers.

Government and everyone else out of my body unless I grant permission to enter! That goes for doctors, lovers, foods, and foetuses! There is, apparently, not a lot I can do about allergens or environmental toxins.