Mind your own damn business.

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36. Thank you for your apology. Please don't beat yourself up about it.

But I stand by my assertion that access to information and access to effective methods of birth control for all girls and women would make abortion a more rare method of last resort. And that is how I have always interpreted Hillary Clinton's quote

That's fair. I will say, though, that in the movement, there's been a shift away from that sentiment, because wanting something to be rare can create a stigma around it -- that it's dangerous, something to be avoided, something to not have to talk about. The slogan just isn't used anymore.

And I also stand by my personal experience with women who have had abortions. For everyone I've talked to about it (including my own experience) it was a difficult decision. In some cases, a very difficult decision that it took many years to fully come to terms with.

Again, there's been a shift in both understanding and talking about abortion. For many people who get abortions, it's actually not a difficult decision, and not one they agonize over. It's always been this way, but people who found it easy to make the decision were often ignored or silenced in the early days of the movement. But that narrative is not front and center anymore either, because we know that people who have access to all options know what they want and need. I am sorry you found your decision difficult.

Life would have been far easier if birth control had been available to them without restriction, in an easily accessible clinic, and without cost.

This is exactly what people in the movement are now fighting for. Instead of "safe, legal and rare," it's for abortion to be "free, on demand and without apology."