Abortion Ban Stories Are Worse Than Anyone Imagined

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Abortion Ban Stories Are Worse Than Anyone Imagined

July 17, 2022 at 9:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 185 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/17/abortion-ban-stories-are-worse-than-anyone-imagined/

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Laura Bassett: “Reproductive rights advocates have long warned that women would die if abortion were banned again—that children would be forced to give birth to their rapists’ babies. I’ve been covering abortion rights for over a decade, and I expected these horrifying, dystopian stories to trickle out over the next six months to maybe a year, forcing people to acknowledge a reality that had long been just hypothetical.”

“Instead, the stories have sprayed out like a firehose: A 10-year-old rape survivor had to travel to another state to get safe abortion care, and politicians immediately went after the doctor who helped her; a Texas hospital let a woman with an ectopic pregnancy bleed until she almost died to avoid getting sued; Idaho Republicans overwhelmingly voted to let women die before giving them care. The dystopia is upon us, and it arrived faster than anyone expected.”

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Roe v Wade was in 1973, nearly fifty years ago.

Which means that no one under 60, maybe no one under 70, really understands what life was like before then. They never knew women who were desperate to end an unwanted pregnancy and did all sorts of dangerous things. They never knew someone who died from an illegal abortion. They never knew someone who's reproductive live was ended by a botched abortion.

Six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are too young to remember life before Roe v. Wade. Which is in part they think that ending it is quite benign, sort of like outlawing aspirin.

[niyad]

2. No, the woman-haters on the courts and in the lrgislatures know, they just

dont't care. They want us to die.

[niyad]

3. Thank you so much for posting this truly horrifying piece .This is only

the beginning.