I fully understand that regulation/restriction fear. Like I said, the only kind of regulation I ask if for the health care professionals involved to maintain proper conditions, accessibility and to openly offer information to their patients. Yadda yadda.

And for what it's worth, I think it's even more remarkable that you can come to your beliefs despite your upbringing.

Heh, it is so strange to hear it put that way. I mean, yeah, people say that all the time, but I didn't really experience my politics on this matter as a choice, much in the same way I didn't experience my being queer as a choice, although now I do the latter. But for me it just became a necessity, you know, a need to take a stand on something I saw so clearly. In fact it probably had much to do with my simultaneously emerging queer identity, this awareness that I was being told I could not be something that I felt so deeply, and that that all of these other oppressions, racism, sexism, anti-choice, everything, were coming from that same place and although different in their own way, were also affecting people in very similar and destructive ways. So yeah. I didn't overcome some restrictive upbringing to come around to the way I see things. Things just felt really wrong for so many reasons and when I started to look at them carefully I could trace the patterns so clearly. Pro-choice is part of who I am. Heh, the more I try to explain this the more abstract I sound. Forget me.