The War On Women: Forensic Vagina Specialist
(You must click the link and listen to this brief interview and see how women are treated in a neighboring country with a 'pro-life' constitution. It's very chilling and will help you to understand why the pro-choice movement is - at its core - a privacy issue - not an abortion issue.)
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story will be a profile of a nation 8 years into the complete and total criminalization of abortion. No rape clause, no life of the mother clause. Nothing.
Air America's Rachel Maddow (if you don't listen to her you don't know what you're missing) interviews one of my favorite journalists Jack Hitt on his cover story (click orange buttons to listen or download).
What you find is a nation in a near-Handmaid's Tale dystopia where a mother of three is imprisoned for 30 years, where a woman must wait until her ectopic pregnancy bursts in her fallopian tubes to get surgery, where the mother of a pregnant woman can be prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to her daughter before, during or after an illegal abortion.
posted by EAPrez @ 8:26 PM
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One thought that I have had and posted is that if you make abortion illegal, then it will not disappear anymore than marijuana has disappeared (despite being illegal since the 1940's). Instead, it will be exactly what drugs are: An easy way for unscrupulous individuals to make a buck. I suspect that you will see the same kinds of people who today operate meth labs learning rudimentary medical knowlege (emphasis on the word, 'rudimentary') and performing abortions in God only knows what kind of sanitary conditions.
I unfortunately have dial up and no sound card, so I couldn't watch the clip, but I will look for the paper this weekend.
I am curious about one thing-- since this country has signed on to what might be called the 'Republican' plan for abortion, does that also mean that they have tossed out what could be called the 'Democratic' plan (family planning, sex ed in schools, birth control)?
"An easy way for unscrupulous individuals to make a buck."
I agree. Back in the late 1960s I went with a friend to get an abortion. She had to hand over $300 as soon as she walked in the door.
While I believe abortion to be wrong, I refuse to judge anyone who choses it. Criminalizing it will not solve the problem.
I'm all for dispensing condoms and birth control pills in high schools.
Marty:
I'm all for dispensing condoms and birth control pills in high schools.
I agree with you (other than the fact that a birth control pill requires a prescription, but a referral to a doctor is certainly appropriate for this purpose).
What Republicans don't understand is that the Democratic/liberal plan for fighting abortion has been quietly and successfully working for a decade or more-- even Right to Life acknowledges that the number of abortions has declined by between a quarter and a third since the early 1990's. This is because of education, birth control and family planning.
But the Republican opposition to this sort of stuff makes it crystal clear that it isn't about stopping abortion at all, its about making everyone conform to a specific set of values, and punishing them if they have sex anyway.
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