The choice is to remain theirs, without “coercion” from either side of the issue.

Nonetheless, I am all in favor of people doing all they can to convince women to keep their children, especially if it involves offering them practical assistance in childcare, education and finding work or obtaining training to enhance their professional chances.

That is supportive work, but the anti-abortionists are not for supporting anything, they are for banning abortion, and focus so heavily on the unborn that they do not see the situation of the mother who is to bear and raise the child they want to protect.

And this does not square at all with the Pawlenty School of “it’s not my problem”