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Would I want my teenage daughter (if I had one) to have that option available... hell yes. Would I prefer she didn't have to have one either through birth control or abstinence ... double hell yes.

Same here -- although I follow news stories and BBS threads about gay rights in the US, that's because I think gay rights is a shibboleth of a free and fair society rather than because I have any personal plans to become either American or gay. The issue of abortion rights, on the other hand, is closer to home: my (unofficial, secular) goddaughter is growing up in the United States, and although she's way too young still for this to be an immediate issue, Supreme Courts last for ages and it genuinely worries me that in seven or so years' time, if the right-wingers get their way, she might not have access to impartial abortion advice, proper clean medical abortion facilities, or for that matter HPV vaccine.

Peter