It's not a miracle clue - but there have been some successes and movement in the right direction. And, yes, there ARE hard corps zealots that will stop and nothing but blanket free abortion in every corner of the country.
Forcing girls and women to give birth to children they do not want or cannot support doesn't sound like a particularly good idea - especially for the forced-birth children.
I said that illegal abortions would eventually become an organized underground business and abortions would stay the same. I'm guessing that there is now developing an illegal distribution of chemical abortion pills which is increasing in abortion banning states that is fueling the rise. What I never thought would be remotely possible was that states like Texas would not allow abortions for pregnancies that had become medical necessities.
Birth is not “forced” it’s a natural process like breathing or using the restroom
I have no problem with taxes being used to care for children. If my taxes were actually used to care for orphans i would take a tax raise
Yes, birth is "forced" when a girl or woman is denied an abortion.
We do not have adequate services for the 75% of women seeking abortions who are poor, low wage workers or very close to poverty, especially in conservative states.
Only 4% of babies resulting from unplanned or unwanted pregnancies are adopted. Adoption, for many biological reasons is a cruel and medically irresponsible solution to unplanned pregnancies.
There are 400,000 of them in the US alone. Only 2 to 4% of adults in the US adopt children.
It just did
Counting the increase in births in Texas has no relevance to anything other than young people are moving into Texas an increasing rate.
Who would those "zealots" be? There's simply no good reason to restrict abortion.
Never mind - doesn't sound discussing the issue with you would be productive.
Sounds like you have no discussion to make, much less explain any rational and legal reason to restrict abortion.
Think whatever you want - just understand I'm not responding further.
I don't really care
The application of the 14th Amendment to women as persons with a liberty right broad enough to encompass abortion was what these billions were spent defending. That wasn't a mere right to abortion. It was a Supreme Court statement that the personal right to liberty, just as the personal rights to life and property, made women virtually if not quite actually equal. For that, people would give their lives. It's worth more than any child born since Jesus Christ if you're a woman. It changed not only the US, but the entire world. And the left didn't die on that hill, and there now going to have to keep going till the entire Conservative movement is destroyed forever, even if it takes 50 more years.
Fight for that. Vote for candidates that will champion that.
Please add contributions to NARAL and NOW, support for Women on Waves, rebuilding the underground abortion network, founding and supporting groups that provide help with financing an abortion for women in economic need, etc.
This is untrue. The left has been far more active in sex education and promulgation of contraception and education in its correct use than the right has. Numerous right wing anti-abortion forces are anti-contraception.
This is completely untrue. Just as Texas has had more births, so pro-choice states have had more abortions. That's because some women from Texas went and got abortions there but others stayed in Texas and continued their pregnancies to term.
Don't try to tell us something that simply isn't so. Conservative states started putting restrictions on abortion just as soon as they got organized in 1979. By the time the SC overturned Roe conservative states had for all practical purposes banned abortion. Several states had only one clinic for the entire state. Who told you that restriction in Roe were abandon? Give us a link.
Who's us?
One of my daughters is an OBGYN the other is a respiratory therapist neonatal.