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excerpt1Originally posted at Live Action News  Prolific
columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams describes herself as a
“writer, consultant, and radio commentator with about a thousand
years experience, give or take a century.” The sassy Mary
Elizabeth, author of the memoir Gimme Shelter: My Three Years
Searching for the American Dream, is also a staff writer at
Salon.com. Almost daily, Mary, or MEW for short, churns out an
opinion piece or two where she rants on about whatever is
current in Hollywood, politics, breaking news, and religion.
Although Williams describes herself as a “practicing Catholic,”
she recently wrote a piece with the provocative tag line: “I
believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped
me from being pro-choice.” The article that followed
was entitled “So what if abortion ends life?”  Based on the
subject of that article, and judging from her Catholic-school
name of Mary Elizabeth, there’s a good chance that although the
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