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lunasun

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3. And it will still be wealthier women who can travel across states to get an abortion

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 11:00 AM

Sep 2020

The young poor women with barely enough $ to have the procedure won’t be getting a free air ticket and place to stay from blue states .

Not so easy for those below middle class

Rich will pull out cash and go wherever
Middle class will pull out a credit card and follow
Working class and poor will often not have the kind of funds and transport to access out of state abortions

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It is access to birth control that is responsible for decline in abortion rates, not draconian [View all] Maraya1969 Sep 2020 OP

No need to fly to Canada Mz Pip Sep 2020 #1

And it will still be wealthier women who can travel across states to get an abortion lunasun Sep 2020 #3

Not necessarily... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #4

And, of course, it's an article of faith on the right... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #2

I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers whose baby died in utero. Maraya1969 Sep 2020 #5