Robin Abcarian: Do women regret their abortions? Absolutely not!
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2020
3 minutes
Of all the annoying arguments trotted out against legal abortion, the most irksome of them is the claim that women need to be protected from themselves, that they will act rashly to terminate unwanted pregnancies and then spend the rest of their lives regretting it.
Such nonsense has even found its way into Supreme Court decisions on abortion. In 2007, in a decision upholding a law banning so-called partial-birth abortions, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that "some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life
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