Illicit abortion is back, and — dare I say it? — better than ever.
Our ultra-conservative Supreme Court was out of step with 21.st Do you really think America of the Century can end selective abortion in America by overturning nearly 50 years of legal precedent?
Indeed, they took the matter back to the states. Reddest states immediately banned the procedure, even if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, or if the fetus had medical problems incompatible with life.
But an overwhelming majority of the court’s six judges, blinded by its own cruelty, believed that overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling would not allow people with access to pregnancy-terminating drugs to be patient-patient. Couldn’t you understand that it would bring about a new kind of Underground Railroad catalysis, creating a support network that connects the ?pills?
opinion columnist
Robin Abkarian
How strict are the courts? Judge Amy Coney Barrett suggested that forcing women to continue with unwanted pregnancies, go into labor and delivery, and give up babies for adoption are perfectly reasonable alternatives to abortion. I’m not over it yet.
It turns out that last month’s midterm elections underscored what we already knew. Most Americans support women’s right to choose. In her five states where abortion was on the ballot, voters overwhelmingly championed reproductive rights.
Not only that, but the abortion issue played a major role in the Democratic Party’s historic success in the midterm elections.
The failure of the Republican Party to win back the Senate in November and the Republican Party’s failure to secure a relatively weak majority in the House can be blamed in part for overthrowing Roe in court. A post-vote analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation and his AP found that while inflation weighed heavily on voters’ minds, the abortion issue attracted a lot of votes, including younger voters, whose voter turnout dropped below his 30. It turned out to be the highest of the year.
Roe, Roe, Roe Vote? Oh, yes.
“Abortion rights advocates who were dancing in the streets only a few months ago are now starting to raise their voices a little more desperately.” It looks like,” The Washington Post reported last week in an article about efforts to further hinder access to abortion. ”
Admittedly, the anti-abortion forces have put up a number of barriers that are effective rather than conscientious, but that women will always find a way to end their pregnancies, even if they have to break the law. must admit.
Medical abortions now account for more than half of all abortions in the country. A combination pill of mifepristone and misoprostol may arrive in the mail in states where abortion is illegal. Medical personnel may be involved to some extent, but not necessarily.
As a result, in most cases, abortion has been moved from the clinic to the privacy of one’s own home. Can you imagine how this would upend the rights of survivors?
Abortion-hostile Texas is at the forefront of efforts to pose new obstacles to reproductive freedom—and free speech. Local lawmakers want to force internet providers to block access to her websites and online pharmacies for abortion pills so that child porn sites are blocked.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said, “Everyone trafficking these pills should go to jail for trafficking.” “It hasn’t happened, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.”
They are now masquerading as environmentalists as the ever-creative minds against abortion reach for even stranger ways to deter women.
Students of Life of America, an anti-abortion group that claims to exist on more than 1,000 American campuses, have argued that medical abortion is bad for the environment without proof. And last month, the group petitioned the FDA to require that fetal remains be treated as medical waste rather than flushed down the toilet.
Environmental experts consider this prospect ridiculous. “Of the drugs and synthetic chemicals that can contaminate water, abortion pills are just a fraction of him one percent,” one environmental scientist told Politico last month. “It’s nothing.”
Conservative commentators, on the other hand, told voters who overwhelmingly support abortion rights that the Supreme Court was right and that letting women choose their own reproductive destiny is bad for both women and men. I spent a lot of time trying to convince him. bad for society.
Arguably, abortion is a disincentive to marriage, commitment, and two-parent families, and this seems to be a particularly retrograde view of contemporary American life.
“Does American Society Need Abortion?” asked conservative New York Times expert Ross Dussat’s column headline last week.
Obvious, Frivolous Answers Aside — No, Americans society No personal abortion required Woman Remember what women went through before the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973? It was a time when people with unwanted pregnancies, including my mother and grandmother, were forced to seek back alley abortions. Expensive, scary, and often deadly.
We may live in a world where women have been unwittingly deprived of their legal rights by a misguided Supreme Court. But we also live in a world where newly illegal abortions are safer than ever.