are we ready to organize for helping women to go to prochoice states for abortions once Roe

[CTyankee]

is overturned? This was done before. Women drove other women to states where their abortions
would be legal. It will affect the poorest women the worst. We'd better be setting up some kind of workable system particularly in states out west where there may be a very long drive to a prochoice state and necessitating an overnight stay at additional costs.

We can also organize systems that will get the abortion pills to women who need them.

We were doing this back in the 60s and 70s until Roe was handed down. Dust off some of those books of the strategies the prochoice movement used. We'll need them...

[TreasonousBastard]

1. We'll have to, but just how depressing is it to go back to those days.

[CTyankee]

2. Better to be prepared, tho. I've lived through the time when all I described was really happening.

And the reality is that many poor, vulnerable women will not want to uproot themselves and just go live in a prochoice state, leaving family and jobs behind.

We'll be fine up here in blue CT and other liberal states. But we've got to be ready to help the poor women in rural red states.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I'm a man, so it's not so personal to me but I'm old enough to remember...

some girls taking off to some boarding school "upstate" and others without the means dying from coat hangers. That should stay history, and not be the future. We may have to set up abortion underground railroads, but that should be a greater cause of shame that we have lost so much that we have gained.

Are you old enough to remember how shocked we were that the Soviets beat us into space with Sputnik? Our answer then was to spend billions on science education and beat them to the Moon. My high school got new science labs, and one cousin got a doctorate in aerospace engineering, all thanks to the Russians.

I can't believe how we're heading back to the 50's without even the few good things happening.

Transgender hell, I can see black and white toilets again if we're not careful.

[Solly Mack]

3. People do volunteer to drive women to and from.

Across states and state lines.

Some volunteers offer overnight housing, and some even offer childcare.

Services offered can vary. Usually the larger the city the bigger the operation.

If you can't find a group locally, people might consider starting one.

You'll find the volunteer drive groups in the usual places (some advertise). You can also contact NARAL or Planned Parenthood.

[etherealtruth]

5. File:Map of US abortion laws pre-1973.svg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_US_abortion_laws_pre-1973.svg

I may be overly pessimistic but I see this map as overly optimistic in the current day and age.