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Article: HYDE AMENDMENT PATENTLY UNFAIR.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 2, 2002
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Byline: JAN JARBOE RUSSELL Syndicated columnist
The woman who came into the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Antonio last March seeking an abortion did not fit the bad-girl myth created by anti-abortion zealots in this country.
This woman is not promiscuous, single or careless. In fact, she is the exact opposite of the big-spending, "Sex in the City" stereotype. She is a poor woman from a small town, happily married, the mother of two, a woman who practiced birth control regularly but was pregnant nonetheless.
She wanted an abortion not because she was heartless or selfish, but because she wanted to be alive to care for her kids, her husband ...