Why We Need to Talk About the Horrifying Gosnell Abortion Trial (interesting article)

[PeaceNikki]

14. Yes, it is absolutely about availability of access to safe, legal and affordable abortions.

The women who went to him had no options. Based on the reports, how on earth could you think otherwise?

"Evidence suggests that a number of factors influenced a woman's decision to seek care at Gosnell's clinic: Medicaid's refusal to provide insurance coverage for most abortions; the scarcity of abortion providers in Pennsylvania (and across the nation); the fear of violence perpetrated by protestors at clinics, and the right-wing culture that has so stigmatized abortion that many think it is still illegal 40 years after Roe v. Wade."