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In reply to the discussion: Roe v. Wade's survival just got a little more unlikely [View all]Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)38. RIght.
And middle class girls in trouble went away.
Their families paid social workers to give their often very much wanted children away. That market dried up after Roe.
As a baby scoop era adoptee, and a woman with a rare heart attack at 24 "typically fatal in labor and delivery," who has had to make difficult decisions about pregnancy, I'm going to speak from lived reality.
It's not the rich, it's not the poor. The great unwashed middle isn't going to like when their daughters are dead from desperation.
Gruesome as it is, maybe we need to bring back the symbol of the coat hanger.
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Depressing, but unsurprising. The woman-hating gestational slavers have been trying for this
niyad
May 2021
#1
it's entirely possible they again go to this level of brazenness sometime down the road:
Celerity
May 2021
#21
The "safe, legal, rare" framing is outdated because it actually stigmatizes abortion.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2021
#7
The thing that the anti abortion people never face is the punishment question.
Funtatlaguy
May 2021
#6
Women of means and mistresses of men of means will ALWAYS have access to safe abortions.
tenderfoot
May 2021
#8
If they uphold the MS law, then that means there will be a 15 week "window" in MS.
roamer65
May 2021
#11