There’s been a fair amount of flipping out about Obama doing the commencement address at Notre Dame because Obama is pro-choice and Notre Dame is a Catholic school. Apparently, there are protesters pushing baby carriages with bloody baby dolls and I’m sure Operation Rescue has set up banners of aborted fetuses. (Then again, Operation Rescue also picketed Urbana in 2000 so their logic and judgment is a little questionable.)

My word on all this:

CHILL OUT ALREADY!!!!!!

Everyone is acting like his commencement speech is going to promote killing babies and eating them or something. Pro-choice does not mean that you support abortion in every circumstance nor that you *LIKE* that abortion exists. For many people, it means that you do not believe that you have the right to make a decision like that for someone else. And yes, I realize that my stated stance of “pro-life/pro-legal” is essentially equivalent to being “pro-choice” in the eyes of most people. Deal with it.

To all the protesters out there: why don’t you put your money and your time where your mouth is and help to fund Crisis Pregnancy Centers so that women who are in a really tough circumstance can *get* the care they need and have some education about their options.