All that plastic bag stuff threw me for a loop — and now I’m blogging late night for choice — because today’s Blog for Choice Day. The upside: All sortsa interesting stuff’s already been written, and I can just link to some of the stuff I like:

>> In Slate, William Saletan calls for a more frank discussion of sex and abortion. I disagree with NARAL president Nancy Keenan’s quote that “In a perfect world, no teenager would be having sex,” but I’m all for more frank discussions.

>> In Salon, Catherine Price dissects the men’s post-abortion syndrome (PAS) movement and asks what would have happened if the man had had the right to force the woman not to have had the abortion.

>> Susan Wicklund, a dedicated doc traveling all over to provide women with abortion services, wrote a book about her work: “This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.” Read a Q&A with Susan. “The majority of physicians who are providing abortions now are my age and older, in our 50s and 60s. Many of them are motivated to do this because they saw women dying from illegal abortions when they were in their residency programs…. The problem now is to try to find young physicians who understand that abortion care should be part of their entire practice.”

>> Leading feminists talk about Roe v. Wade. Says Frances Kissling: “More than anything I am worried about how much it costs and how little we are doing about that. I want to see those of us who are pro-choice match the personal commitment anti-choice people make to help women continue their pregnancies with equal help for women who can’t afford abortion.”

Update, 1/22/09: Blog for Choice 2009: No more funding for abstinence-only programs!

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