On Playing Your Position.

My own views on abortion are anchored mostly in my experience with pregnancy. I was a doting partner, but those nine months made it abundantly clear that my burden was not Kenyatta's burden. It didn't matter that my heart was in it--there were simply places, on account of biology, that I could not go.

I have a good friend who almost died in the process of pregnancy. I am not willing to instruct people to carry a burden, that I can not. I will not do it.  Andrew's recent of dispatches from people who've grappled with abortion, have only reinforced that for me. Read them here, here, here, here, here and here.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/06/on-playing-your-position/18764/