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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:32 PM Jul 2017

Is This What Repukes want us to go back to?? Illegal Abortions



"In the 1950s, in addition to being illegal, ending a pregnancy was incredibly dangerous. Countless thousands of women lost their lives in botched abortions in the decades preceding Roe v. Wade, many dying as a result of infection or unskilled and negligent operators. Women went to great lengths to escape the stigma of an unwanted pregnancy, recruiting an untrained cousin to perform the procedure, for example, or following a stranger into a makeshift operating room.

But underground providers were ubiquitous, if you knew where to look. And cracking down on the practice was a priority for police departments."

Arrest Photos of those providers of abortions in the 1950:

https://timeline.com/these-news-photos-of-abortion-arrests-show-the-shame-and-resolve-before-roe-v-wade-227c51e5a093
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Is This What Repukes want us to go back to?? Illegal Abortions (Original Post) packman Jul 2017 OP
Yep. That is exactly what they want just so they can brag about being so "righteous" in opposing world wide wally Jul 2017 #1
Not only Repukes atreides1 Jul 2017 #2

world wide wally

(21,756 posts)
1. Yep. That is exactly what they want just so they can brag about being so "righteous" in opposing
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:40 PM
Jul 2017

legal abortion

atreides1

(16,094 posts)
2. Not only Repukes
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:54 PM
Jul 2017

There are pro-life Democrats as well, and let's not forget to point out that this is all being pushed by evangelical conservative "Christians", who continue to elect politicians who will fight against abortion...but will sit idly by as a child starves or gets sick because of a lack of access to basic, decent health care!!!

Churches, groups, individuals...and not all of them are Repukes!!!

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