OK, I’m coming out of the closet. I’m pro-life.

[pauljulian]

73. Indeed

I've refused to give an answer to those who bring it up (almost invariably the "pro-life" crowd), for these reasons and also for the fact that it isn't my business. I'm in my mid-50's as is my wife... I got "fixed" in 1982, so I wouldn't have a horse in that race, and my wife is past menopause, so there's that... my daughters are grown women who, should the unfortunate occur, are quite capable of making their own decisions, as are my wife's daughters.

My answer to those who ask is simply, "None of my business."

And I say this as an adoptee and the product of a seriously unwanted and unintended pregnancy... my birth-mother made a choice, and, although it might have been made differently had Roe v. Wade been in effect in 1957, it was her very difficult choice nonetheless... she could have chosen to keep me, and, from what I've learned, that would have been a very bad choice indeed.

I'm a man who loves life in all its varied and brilliant expressions, so I guess that makes me pro-life; the medical procedure in question is legal, and completely outside of anything I could choose to say about it, unless it be in the unlikely event that my counsel was sought by a woman considering said procedure... and my counsel would be that I'm the wrong person to ask... but she would have my support, whatever the decision.