DISQUS

Easy question to answer, since you are building a straw man.

Nobody says that abortions are empowering - that is your bad logic and twisting of words to create a false point.

What is empowering is a woman's right to choose when she has a child.

Hopefully, she does that in the most responsible manner, by making careful choices in her partners and safe sex/birth control. In those situations where a woman becomes pregnant at a time when she is not able or prepared to have a child, she has decisions to make. Adoption is one option and abortion is another.

I don't know anyone who makes or has made such choices lightly. Still, I believe it should remain a lawful choice for a woman to make, in those situations where no other options are available.

Too high tech for me. I still use my mobile phone primarily for phone calls, and laptop for email, word processing, calculations, planning/scheduling, etc.

Although, something that has functionality at the level of the iPhone might make me change my mind. I have construction and real estate developr clients here in the Boston area who use the "crackberry" and find it to be invaluable.

Patriots are going to steam roll the Jets this weekend. I think the Pats have been playing possum all preseason, just in anticipation of this game. Jets fans (and sports writers) who believe that Mangina he cracked the Belichick Code and is prepared to slay the dragon this season are in for a rude awakening!

Vince Wilfork bursts past the J-E-T-S left guard, hitting Pennington, who simultaneously suffers a broken left arm and retorn right rotator cuff. Yes, the prediction is for pain, boys and girls.

I apologize for the rant, I just so rarely see NFL talk (let alone Patriots talk) on a Russian related blog. I think last time was when Putin swiped Robert Krafts ring ...