Abortion: shut the fuck up.

Abortion. It's a tough issue. And just saying the word aloud in your solo newscast can be nervewrecking. But I think it's an issue that should be more openly discussed in society. We shouldn't just, shut the fuck up, about abortion. See the Toronto Star article. I've read a lot of novels set in a distopian future. And reading 1984 or Handmaid's Tale is scary, because you can see how our society of today could evolve into a V for Vendetta or Brave New World fantasy. Don't get me wrong: I greatly look forward to the soma. But the world won't all of a sudden go to hell in a handbasket. It will be small, gradual changes. Small freedoms and luxuries taken away. Passified by drugs. And abortion. It's such an important, symbollic freedom: the woman's right to choose. Harper won't allow foreign aid money to fund abortion in developing nations. But abortions have occurred for centuries - whether legal or not. Legalizing abortion made it safe for women. Without funding, abortions will still continue, let's not kid ourselves here. This may seem like a tiny, minute issue, that doesn't touch us here at home. But it always begins with the tiny things...