Gag me with a baby spoon:

Sweet NYTimes profile of a abortion-rights activist

She rummages on her desk and produces two charming snapshots that confirm her good fortune, blushing with pride and with apologies for her generic mom-ness, right to the roots of her fluffy blond hair.

Imagine that: the woman who infuriated Gov. George E. Pataki last weekend, and continues to do so this week by denouncing him as a "double-crosser" and a "flip-flopper" over his decision to veto a bill that would make the so-called morning-after pill available without a prescription is a dedicated mother hen herself. Twice over.

And yes, Ms. Conlin discovered two babies are precisely twice as much work as one. Not to mention the double whammy of a weight gain she is still trying to whittle away: "I tithe to the gym down the street," she says of being too busy to actually get there.

Ms. Conlin, 46, freckled and flushed, had heard that pregnancy, sonograms and motherhood might alter her perspective on the birth control issue – or, as she terms it, reproductive rights. Didn’t happen. Her babies came by choice, not by chance or mistake.

"It doesn’t make sense to people who see us as abortion-rights activists, but to me, being pro-choice means seeing it as bigger than one issue and one position," she says. Naral, which was formed in 1968 to repeal abortion laws and now operates in 30 states, functions on a simple premise: "Its reason for being is to make sure every woman in this country is able to chart her reproductive destiny," she says. "Without that, women are not free."

Catholic school background almost all the way, blah, blah, blah….