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In a past posting I wrote about the hypocrisy and self-contradiction of the anti-abortion movement<\/a>. Now, with Roe v Wade on the line, I feel that I must write on this subject again.<\/p>\n Overturning Roe v Wade will open a serious can of worms. It will return control of women\u2019s bodies to the individual states, which means that some states will be worse for women than others. Numerous states have trigger laws waiting in the wings, which will come into effect as soon as Roe v Wade is upended. Some of the more liberal states could quickly pass laws protecting reproductive rights, but that is not a guarantee.<\/p>\n In states where abortion is severely restricted, women will return to the bad old days of risky back-alley procedures. Those who have the means will travel hundreds, even thousands, of kilometers. Too many women have neither the time nor the resources for such a trip, though; and may resort to knitting needles, pennyroyal, or even \u201caccidental\u201d tumbles down a flight of stairs.<\/p>\n If Roe v Wade is overturned, this could easily start the domino tumbling. Most abortion foes also oppose access to birth control – which stops abortion by preventing unintended pregnancies. In their ignorance, anti-choice activists claim that many methods of birth control cause abortion when in reality they prevent a pregnancy from starting in the first place. Controlling women\u2019s bodies is just a major step towards perverting the United States into a brutal theocracy every bit as tyrannical as the Taliban that currently oppresses Afghanistan.<\/p>\n Outlawing birth control such as Plan B, The Pill and IUDs could lead to severe restrictions, if not out-and-out bans, on condoms, diaphragms and the like. Imagine having to get your \u201crubbers\u201d at a post-Roe speakeasy. There was a time when birth control was illegal in the United States: Between the enactment of the Comstock Act in 1873, which outlawed not only contraception but also information about it; and Eisenstadt v Baird in March of 1972, which made birth control legal throughout the land. We could all too easily return to Comstock-style regulations.<\/p>\n When Texas closed half of its abortion clinics between 2010 and 2014, maternal mortality more than doubled. Shutting down clinics and yanking funding from Planned Parenthood does not save lives, but imperils them. The obsessive tunnel vision focusing on fetuses ignores those who have already been born.<\/p>\n The successes of the antiabortion crusade show that the only thing necessary for Evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. The price of liberty truly is eternal vigilance. We who believe that every woman should have the option to decide whether and when she will bear children must remember that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a past posting I wrote about the hypocrisy and self-contradiction of the anti-abortion movement. Now, with Roe v Wade on the line, I feel that I must write on this subject again. Overturning Roe v Wade will open a serious can of worms. It will return control of women\u2019s bodies to the individual states, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}