here we go

Well, here we are. South Dakota is pushing to outlaw almost all abortions. This is definitely taking this battle up a notch.

When I came to this country, it took a while for me to understand what was the big deal with this whole abortion thing. On the surface, it is painfully clear that this option should be left available for women. Underneath, though, it is such a pivotal battle between progressive thought and the backward, "conservative", self-righteous, hypocritcal forces that most educated people have been able to rise above.

It's not hard draw parallels to other, similar ideological conflicts in American history - for starters, just go back to 1861...