If that's what you think the attitude is, well quite frankly I find your generalizations disgusting and reprehensible.

There are three women I've kown personally very well who have had abortions at one point in their lives. I've know many others to a lesser degree that have had abortions.

If you think it's just a carefree decision, you're looking at the wrong gender. Not many men take it with such a cavalier attitude but I've met them. Not so with the women.

Ask them why the insurance companies won't pay for birth control. Would you support the 'public option' paying for birth control?

In addition, everything I've read says the "public option" has a few options - and one of them is abortion coverage. You don't want to pay for it in your premium? You don't have to. ...but if you have private insurance, perhaps through your employer, do you know whether you're already subsidizing it?

If this has changed, I'm open to being told differently.

And just so you know where I'm coming from on this.. I was adopted. I do support a woman's right to choose, but with limits - if you waited 8 months and changed your mind - sorry, you missed the window. I've been on my hands and knees scrubbing the blood of a miscarriage off the floor - from a very much WANTED pregnancy. And I've anguished over the decision years earlier to abort a pregnancy when we found out that my wife was pregnant due to birth control failure and we'd had complete pelvic and back x-rays since we both started seeing a chiropractor. The risk factors from the radiation THAT early on (like around 1 week) along with other factors made for a VERY difficult decision. I've been married twice and have two daughters, 22 and 17. I don't fit anyone's radical pigeonhole. (Like when someone told me years ago that I couldn't be a parent and pro-choice at the same time). And, for what it's worth, my opinions on this have changed over the years. I try to keep an open mind.