This piece and today's comments are really good in stirring the mind about this issue. It's a tough one in some ways. No obvious right answer for me. At 17 I got pregnant for the first time, alone and confused in the late '60's at an art school I had not wanted to attend. I was reeling from the chaos of all that was going on in that era and actually wanted to get a job, not go to school. My parents plucked me out of that school and that relationship, seeing that something unfortunate had happened to me possibly because they had forced me into a situation I had not wanted, and hauled me off to Puerto Rico to have an abortion. More confusion. It was a medical procedure with an attached profound, vast dimension. If they had not done that, my life would have been much different than it has turned out to be. I still feel wrenched by the issue- being pregnant by the wrong guy at the wrong time in one's life is a tragedy, but so is having an abortion. Abortion can be seen as the lesser of two evils, certainly when you factor in the dreadful orphanages run by churches or other corrupt organizations. But there are many belief systems that counsel against it. Basically, there is a price to pay for everything we do. I would not wish a back alley abortion on anyone, nor an unwanted child who cannot be cared for properly and whose very existence condemns the parents to a life of hardship. What Texas is doing, what the supreme court is doing, is wrong, in any event, and though I cannot ever celebrate the famous "woman's right to choose," given my own history which had very little choosing on my part, I can say that it seems like cruelty to eliminate options with such callous disregard for those who will suffer.