Pro-Choice

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I'm glad Schenck came to his senses, but he did a LOT of damage to a lot of people and contributed to ruining a lot of lives. His actions also contributed to some lives (like Dr. Slepian's) being unjustly ended. You don't have to pull the trigger yourself or even directly tell someone else to do it to bear responsibility for contributing to the conditions that lead to such events.

I don't know how you can wipe the slate clean after the things he's done, but then, I don't think he expects to be able to do that. Sometimes, after making terrible mistakes, all you can do is admit how wrong you were and try to make better choices going forward. That seems to be what he's trying to do. He needs to work harder at it, though. If he wants respect from anyone in the pro-choice community, what he needs to do is devote himself to trying to educate the people he led astray about the facts and realities he's come to recognize himself. Write books, give speeches, take the most public stand possible for the things he now claims to believe. I think he's doing some of that, but not enough.

He also needs to apologize, personally and publicly, to as many of the multitudes of people he's hurt as possible. He says he doesn't expect to be forgiven, which seems realistic, but I'd like to see a lot more remorse from him. Then maybe I'll be able to take him more seriously.