Never let anyone say that you can't go backwards.

[phantom power]

This is working out well for the anti-abortion zealots. It's not that women are no longer getting abortions. But they are suffering a lot more. And perhaps that's the point:

A Huffington Post survey last year found that since 2010, at least 54 abortion providers across 27 states had either closed or stopped performing the procedure. Sixteen more shut their doors after Texas lawmakers passed some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country last summer. A federal appeals court upheld two of the new restrictions in a ruling last week.

As a result, researchers and women's health advocates say, women today are resorting to many of the same dangerous methods they relied on in the pre-Roe era: seeking out illegal abortion providers, as Karen Hulsey did, or attempting risky self-abortion procedures.

In 2014, four decades after the Supreme Court upheld a woman's right to choose, pregnant women once again find themselves crossing the border to Mexico and haunting back-alleys in search of medical care.

Of course they are. There was never any doubt that this would happen. Women will get abortions. There is no stopping it. The only question is whether they will endanger their health or die getting them.

Read the whole story, it's devastating. I can hardly believe this is happening in 2014. I was a young teen when Roe was first decided. And I'm pretty old now. Never let anyone say that you can't go backwards. Even with all the pharmacological and medical advances, I'm seeing it happen in my own lifetime.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-not-bug-backalleyabortion.html

[CJCRANE]

1. RW policies generally increase the problem

they claim to be trying to solve.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. The left (that includes me) suffers from the delusion that once people see the light

they WON'T go backward.

That once we win people's rights in court, they're there forever.

That once a new generation comes along, they'll reject the bigotry and hate they got from their parents.

But evil never goes away. And it never quits trying.

[haele]

3. There are enough people who trap their children with their own hate and fear for bigotry to survive.

But, that's the way it's always been.

Frightened slaves to authority have the tendancy to prefer to damage their children's future than disappoint their "big men". The happiness of their families mean less to them than the security of belonging to the elect.
After all, they have been promised that they will get their reward from their masters for being good servants. Even if that reward is a long time coming.

Because being free does not mean the same thing to the fearful and the comfortable as it does to the fearless or the curious.

Haele