...Calls to Exhale’s hot line (click here) surged after the program. But some opponents of abortion, including Bill O’Reilly, the conservative commentator, sharply criticized the program as “glorifying” abortion. Jill Stanek, a popular anti-abortion blogger, inaccurately accused Exhale and other “pro-abortion ideologues” of underwriting the program.
Advocates of abortion rights, on the other hand, mostly viewed the program more neutrally and even suggested that it might help curb abortion by showing the difficult decisions involved.
The reaction to the program has frustrated some Exhale staff members who said they never wanted anything to do with politics — Ms. Baker described Exhale’s position on abortion as “pro-voice.” It has also raised questions about whether an organization that calls abortion a “normal part of reproductive life” can avoid being drawn into the political battle over abortion.....
If it is NOT a normal decision to women seeking to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, then what is it? Deranged? By whom's standard? The Christian Conservatives (a policital faction in the USA)?
The BIBLE standards according to Christians is NOT included the DSM IV.
The political influence of the Christian Conservatives is grossly out of balance in the USA. The reason for that is the FEDERAL funding of special interests. It is corrupt and should not be occurring. Let's see how much the Repuglican House rolls that back to Pre-Bush levels.
Intimacy is a comfort. For people with lower incomes and not much else but togtherness as a remedy to life it is a huge comfort. It is allowed to be a comfort, a human comfort, under the laws of the USA. Until the Christian Conservatives Political Faction comes up with a substitution for comfort in intimacy will there be NO abortions. Sex happens, babies DON'T.
The privacy of the support netword, "Exhale," help isolated women resolve their turmoil and gives them support where no support groups exist or are necessarily desired. I thank the people at "Exhale."
