I only disagree with the part about med abortions being easier. In a totally unscientific poll of my colleagues at a fine local abortion clinic (done, granted, in 2005), we all agreed that the five-minute surgical was infinitely preferable to the possibly hours-long cramping/bleeding. But we weren't scared of the docs, because we saw them eating lunch every day, and YMMV.

God, I miss Seattle.

Shorter Lindy West: I do not know anything, but I like to act like I do as a pretense for trying to be funny, which I am not.

@ 8...I think Lindy oversimplified for sake of humor my friend...If I wanted to just get fucked then I could show up attract a male and say 'yes". However said "multidimensional game of tightrope" exists at the same level if not more for females. In order to be taken seriously we have to be sexual but not a whore, be smart but not TOO smart, have an opinion but not be opinionated, independent but not too much, successful but not more than they, I'm not complaining just letting you know when it comes to fucking that's readily available for women and a little harder for men, when it comes to dating its the opposite. I think the fact that Seattle women complain about men and vice versa is that Seattle is clique-ey and it seems most prefer not to mingle outside their very set friend group and alas you have tons of people who once they have banged their way through their friend groups are out of options and start complaining....

I LOVE THE PART ABOUT ABORTIONS. THANK YOU LINDY WEST. OK.

Abortion should not be used for birth control.

You shouldn't be resorting to abortion for birth control but instead you shouldn't be getting pregnant in the first place. It's called using a condom and other types of birth control as well.

I think most women who have had abortions feel regret or sorrow at one point or another, particularly the ones who went on to have children later in their life. I don't think abortion is the "quick fix" people imagine it to be. It's something that any woman will remember for the rest of her life. A lot of women suffer from mental health, and physical health issues after having an abortion.

All women who have abortions have regret about it. Do you imagine anyone takes this lightly? There always comes that quiet moment at the end of a day when the kids are out playing just before dinner and their laughter seeps through the walls of the house and into the mind. "I wonder what life would have been like if only....." Or the woman sees another woman with a baby or toddler and regrets killing her child or children since she prevented them from being born.

It has only been 1 week since my abortion. I was out drinking with my guy friend who had just got in town. I guess I got a little too drunk and ended up sleeping with him. I was off the pill because I had a problem with migraines so my doctor took me off of it to see if that was the cause. We had unprotected sex that night, and thought nothing of it the next morning. A few weeks later, I was late on my period so I asked him if he remembered using a condom. He said no, so I set up an appointment with my doctor. I got a pregnancy test done by my doctor that showed positive. I told only my friend who came to the doctors with me, my best friend, my other girlfriend who had been through pregnancy and abortion before, and the father. Within 2 weeks of the pregnancy, everybody knew. The father was very supportive and said that he would support me in any decision I made. If I wanted to keep it, he wanted me to move to where he lived and he would do anything it took to support me and the baby. If I wanted to abort the pregnancy, he would be behind me 100%. After talking to countless amounts of friends who I trusted to tell me what they truthfully thought, I decided to proceed with the abortion.

I remember the day perfectly. I was raining out, and my doctor decided to do something different because I didn't want to deal with picketers. He sent me to the hospital where I would be completely anonymous. I woke up at 5:00am after a nightmare I had about the abortion. I got ready and went to the hospital for 8:00am. When I got there, the doctor was really nice and comforting. She told me that if someone was meant to have children, they will, and if they become pregnant to early and decide to get an abortion, the baby's spirit goes back into the mothers heart and waits until she is ready. That made me feel somewhat better. I was brought into a room and put onto an operation table and gave and anesthetic. The procedure took about half an hour, and they used a tube to go up through my cervix and sucked it out into a bottle, and I woke up in absolute tears, calling the fathers name out and screaming I'm sorry to my recently killed child. The father was in the recovery room, and waited with me until I regained control of what I was screaming out.

I was an emotional wreck the whole day. The father went to his sisters house while I rested. I was sleeping on and off for the next few days, and I had to wear pads for 2 days after the procedure. Its been a week now. And I am still going through absolute hell. I don't think It will ever stop. I cry at least 10 times a day. If I see a baby on the street with it's mom or dad, I cry. If I see a baby on t.v or in a book, I cry. If I hear about kids or anything to do with pregnancy or abortion, I break into tears. I've thought about suicide, and I find it hard to live with the fact that I am in fact, a baby killer. The pain I am feeling I know will only get worse. And I can only think of myself as one thing. A Murderer! So if anyone out there is reading this to help them decide if abortion is a way out for them, please think this through. It's no longer about you, it's about the life growing inside of you. So many people including myself have to deal with the pain and guilt and shame of knowing that they destroyed a life that was growing inside of them. Please, Please, don't add yourself to that list of people.

I cant believe anyone would bang lindy. shes nasty