BTRTN, The Wendy Rant: On the New Florida Abortion Law
Wendy is back on Born To Run The Numbers with a new rant about the Florida Abortion law:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2023/04/btrtn-wendy-rant-on-new-florida.html
Excerpts: "In Florida now, if you're fortunate enough to realize on day 35 that you might be pregnant, you need to make a very fast decision about whether or not you want to carry that pregnancy to term. Because if you don't, you only have one week to test, make an appointment with an abortion provider, arrange time off from your job and childcare for your toddlers. It's an almost insurmountable hurdle...C'mon folks, abortion has been all but outlawed in Florida...
"Florida was heretofore the oasis for people in the south who need abortions. Because according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, with the fall of Roe, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia all enforced trigger or other bans making abortion illegal. And access in Georgia and North Carolina is severely restricted. Look at that map...
"Tom tells me that the GOP has overreached and we’ll see a swing back to saner abortion policy in the future... He also tells me it could take decades. In the meantime, individual women – perhaps a whole generation of them – will suffer mightily and turn to those coat hangers. They can’t wait for change (and mind you, this isn’t quantum-leap-forward change, it’s back-to-where-we-were change). They are being denied the opportunity to control the trajectory of their lives. And that is a heartbreaking tragedy."
