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3. Thank you for that story.

This is the rather hypocritical example of someone who made darn well the needed abortion was obtained even if he'd prevent anyone else from getting one.

I'm relatively old, 73, so I personally am long past the age of ever needing an abortion. And I'm old enough to remember what it was like prior to Roe v Wade. I remember a family friend sending her daughter to Hawaii to get a legal abortion there some time in the late 1960s. I knew several women who jumped through stupid hoops to get a legal abortion in Washington DC before 1972. In the 1960s I knew of several women who did desperate things to cause a miscarriage. This is not what we want to go back to.

I do recall reading about a decade after Roe v Wade that younger doctors had no idea what it was like to deal with the aftermath of illegal, back alley abortions. I also recall reading some decades ago that in Brazil, a country that had no legal abortion whatsoever, had half of their maternity ward beds taken up by women who'd had illegal abortions. Think about that. No legal abortion. Half of all maternity beds occupied by women having illegal abortions.

Or Romania, where abortion was so strictly forbidden that it was impossible to get, and women who had unwanted pregnancies simply abandoned those children, and orphanages were filled with those unwanted children, who were just barely given food and a diaper change. No attention whatsoever, and so they simply did not develop into proper human beings because they had essentially zero human contact. Is that what we want?