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A billboard is grabbing drivers' attentions along Interstate 55. It reads, Welcome to Illinois, where you can get a safe, legal abortion. The Hope Clinic for Women, out of Granite City, put it up.
Meet the woman behind the abortion resistance being run from an Illinois farm
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2022/05/17/meet-the-woman-behind-the-abortion-resistance-being-run-from-an-illinois-farm-
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Hope Clinic is committed to providing the highest quality medical and emotional abortion care with dignity and compassion.
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sheshe2
(88,572 posts)Women are now back in the dark ages.
So many good people are trying to help despite the consequences.
I am crying.
Budi
(15,325 posts)To see it be handed away so carelessly & so swiftly by the unthinking & selfish minded is devastating, for those lives committed to bringing it about, & to those who will never know of such rights but in the stories passed down over time.
What it was like pre 2022, when women could decide in private, which health & reproductive choices would be best for their lifstyle
And that women of pre2022, actually had such a choice.
Imagine a grama or mom today telling their grown daughter what women's healthcare was like when they were her age.
Or simply pre 2022.
How did this not become as big a rally cry in 2016 as we see it is today.
Where were all these women when their power & voices were needed.
I'm stunned by that fact alone.
Did they take that torch so carelessly for granted? All these voices today? Where were they when we needed them.
I want to look at them all & ask, How could you do this?
The story of womens struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights. Gloria Steinem
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I have this Feminism at Work print. I bought early in the 2016 campaign.
On behalf of our hope for final equality under law, by our 1st woman President Hillary Clinton.
Her life legacy was literally women & human rights above all else.
We were within a few steps of proudly carrying that torch of all women before us, on to it's final home & set as the law of the land.
They spit at her face. They threw dollar bills as her car passed by their hate protests.
The cheered the politician who called Planned Parenthood 'Establishment'.
They degraded the very woman who carried that long lifted torch into the future for all girls forevermore.
How could these women we hear today, calling loudly as they now demand the very same sacred Rights they so casually handed away, as they stood so loudly against us in 2016.
How could they do this?
roamer65
(37,250 posts)We were the true losers.
Budi
(15,325 posts)The generations who will come of age not knowing how it should & could be. How it once was for their own self care, & respect of their own personal decisions.
They won't know what it is.
roamer65
(37,250 posts)Just across the border from IN and OH.
We are going to overturn that stupid 1931 law. Its already under injunction.
Sogo
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Budi
(15,325 posts)I hope the State of Illinois protects them.