We were not supposed to perform abortions past 12 weeks. But it would, and did, happen that some women were aborted at 16 to 20 weeks. When that would happen, I would find that the tray contained blood, tissue and bone. That happened quite a lot and anyone who says it doesn't is lying. All this was on her mind because of several events of the past few weeks involving a procedure some call partial-birth abortion, a topic due to hit the Congress and probably divide the nation again this week.
Abortion is legal in America.
It has also become so loosely and casually available that too many regard it as no more of a nuisance than root canal work. Unfortunately, the issue has been infected by politicians working both sides of the aisle, attempting to lure support of one interest group or another by increasing the venom in their argument. That is one of the inevitable consequences of a culture that sometimes seems dedicated to the corruption of older, established values like family, God religion and patriotism. And then I washed it away down the sink. I'm ashamed I actually did that.