Open for Target Practice

Or, that's how I feel. The BMC Listserv has been having a few threads of discussion about abortion lately, due to all the current press on the subject, and I just posted a huge and fairly passionate response to the thread that I cried while writing. How ridiculous am I? I'm sure that a bunch of Bryn Mawr alums, most of whom are significantly older than I, can be civil. But being in the minority makes me excessively nervous, because really all I want is harmonious discussion. I don't want anyone to tell me I'm wrong, or I'm a bad feminist, or not a feminist at all, or that I'm some sort of conservative maniac. I'm not. You know that, if you're reading this, but I feel the need to say it anyway. Why is it always so nervewracking to put yourself out on a limb?