Women urge others to go public about abortions

[ejbr]

PALO ALTO -- Harriett Hills Stinson, 85, a prominent member of the wealthy San Francisco family that founded Hills Bros. Coffee, says it took a push by GOP conservatives to cut funding for family planning and abortion services to move her to reveal a long-held personal secret: She once had an illegal abortion.

"I've never regretted it," Stinson told The Chronicle this week. As a mother in her 20s with three young children, Stinson said, she came to the decision that "for the sake of my family, it was not right for me to have a fourth child." Now, she said, "I'm hoping women who have had abortions will come forward."

Read at: SFGate.com

[DURHAM D]

1. Link does not seem to work. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Try this link:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/13/MN7C1LGRIP.DTL

[DURHAM D]

4. Thank you - that works. nt

[saras]

2. Good for her. Personally I don't object to outing hypocrites on this issue either

But only people who are politically campaigning against abortion. Otherwise it's their own business alone.