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SPEAK knitting for inner peace
EDITOR'S NOTE
Abortion is not just a hot button issue — it's a whole keyboard. Comprising matters of politics,
legality, health, religion ethics, medicine, health feminism and freedom, I'd argue that the right (or not) to choose is the most contentious issue in America today. Legal for 33 years, abortion remains a tremendous controversy
and a newsworthy topic.The issue continues to make headlines, recently with Alito's appointment to chief justice, Wichita abortionist George Tiller under investigation for a patient's death and South Dakota's statewide ban.
So it was with nervousness and dread that I received reporter Erin Wisdom's proposal to do her
feature story on abortion.
Nervousness and dread turned to excitement and pride as the story came along — as it went through more drafts and took more time than any other feature this semester — because it doesn't focus on any of the
hot buttons.
The story is about the people. it is about those who have had abortions and those who chose not to. It is about women and men, doctors and counselors, proponents who fight for it and those who discourage it
at all costs. The story includes facts, statistics and experts opinions to give full scope to the issue, but the it's not propaganda, or a statement or an editorial, it is a story.
Tencourage you to read it slowly and thoughtfully. It is too easy to make abortion a matter of politics, or religion, or medicine, and to not consider the people — both relieved and regretful — who make it relevant to our world. Their testament yields a greater truth than facts or statistics ever could: the truth of personal experience. It focuses on the faces of abortion, for they matter most of all.
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