Column: The fight to protect women’s rights should be nonpartisan

Years ago, I ran for the state House of Representatives against a sitting Democrat, who was one of the founders of the Hawaii Right to Life movement. As a pro-choice Republican candidate, I informed voters of his and my positions, and won. Being older, I could remember brutal stories of young women dying from botched abortions, some in sordid conditions. At Stanford University, an unmarried undergraduate living in the dorm next to mine, was expelled from school once it became known she was pregnant. Expelled, not for poor grades but for being pregnant. Birth control methods were primitive, and “the pill” hadn’t been invented. I was one generation removed from families of 13 or more children.

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