These women now have to struggle for what was once readily available, even if they still can, theoretically, access family planning in another state. A lot of them are going to try an unsafe method, or won’t be able to make the trip happen, or fall through the cracks another way.
This dangerous shit is what got Roe v. Wade passed to begin with. I was only a kid but damn those pics were gory. There is one quite famous one of a lady who had died while passed out from loss of blood, kneeling on the floor with bloody towels around her from a botched abortion. Even in black and white it was . . . ugh.
Laws don’t end abortions and never have. They only ensure more suffering, death, and societal judgement for anyone in a position unlucky enough to have to think about one in the first place.
(And as long as I’m talking about the 70s, I should add that this whole bad faith “abortion as birth control” argument comes from the exact same place as Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” trope. These people may exist, but they are NOT the norm, not by a long shot. In both cases the real culprits were, and are, institutions corporate and religious.)
“The cruelty is the point” etc
These women now have to struggle for what was once readily available, even if they still can, theoretically, access family planning in another state. A lot of them are going to try an unsafe method, or won’t be able to make the trip happen, or fall through the cracks another way.
This dangerous shit is what got Roe v. Wade passed to begin with. I was only a kid but damn those pics were gory. There is one quite famous one of a lady who had died while passed out from loss of blood, kneeling on the floor with bloody towels around her from a botched abortion. Even in black and white it was . . . ugh.
Laws don’t end abortions and never have. They only ensure more suffering, death, and societal judgement for anyone in a position unlucky enough to have to think about one in the first place.
(And as long as I’m talking about the 70s, I should add that this whole bad faith “abortion as birth control” argument comes from the exact same place as Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” trope. These people may exist, but they are NOT the norm, not by a long shot. In both cases the real culprits were, and are, institutions corporate and religious.)