Abortion is in the headlines this week. On Saturday jsmdlawyer at Daily Kos diaried Clarence Thomas attempt to prevent an imprisoned woman in Missouri from having the abortion to which she was legally entitled, just because she didn't have the $350 she needed to get to the clinic (before we were through with that one, she could have hired a limo, but how much better for women everywhere that she didn't need it after all).

And this morning none of us was shocked--shocked!-- to hear about Harriet Miers 1989 promise to support a Constitutional amendment banning abortion altogether.

But now I m going to tell you an abortion story that hasn t made the news, and probably won't'