[Magdalen] pondering politics

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

You know, Mike, you ought not to say what someone else is thinking.  You
really don't know her, and you don't know what she may be thinking. Sorry,
you don't know any of that. That may sound harsh, but in this case, I
honestly think you just don't hear unless you really get told flat out, and
maybe not even then.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 2:36 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Sorry, you're misinformed.<<<
>
> No, Jim, our friend Sibyl is not misinformed.  She has the same
> information we have, specifically that PP does not push abortions, but
> merely makes them constitutionally (legal, safe, etc) available to those
> who feel the need of that service.  The difference between her and us is
> that she believes that Cecile Richards is a liar, and all those associated
> with her, PP'ly speaking, are also liars.  That's her choice.  She chooses
> to not believe her and them.  So be it.
>
> As for affordable services potentially not otherwise available, I'd also
> like to add my story, told a couple time before, I'm sure.  And that story
> involves not expense, but fear.  When Anna and I got together in 1988, and
> since during the previous decade she had been sexually active and I'd
> received a blood transfusion during a surgery, we knew we needed to start
> out on an informed foot, as it were.  True, we could have gone elsewhere,
> but in our immaturity thankfully fueled at least in some part by reasonable
> fear of what could be, we instantly opted for Planned Parenthood, because
> we knew they'd be compassionate, and yes, affordable (we didn't really have
> jobs at that point).  They were, and they were.  They even understood our
> desire to hear the results together rather than the standard separately,
> because we came in as a unit, and wanted any potentially bad news as a
> unit.  Worked like a charm.  And no one slipped an abortion pamphlet into
> our back pocket as we were leav
>  ing.
>