Abortion, prayer – and my revealing Twitter chat

A little while ago, the Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts posted a captioned picture of herself on Facebook in response to the leak of the US Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Roe v Wade (the landmark 1973 decision that conferred a constitutional right to abortion).

She wrote: ‘Happy Mother’s Day. May we be mothers when we want, how we want and IF we want.’ [Mother’s Day in the US is on a different date to the UK.]

In response, I posted the comment: ‘She’s also saying “May we allow the unborn to live and become our children, but only when we want, how we want and IF we want”.’ Although my comment garnered 131 ‘likes’, with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps, I shouldn’t have been surprised at the volume of furious comments that resulted.