Holy Sh*t!!
Via BoingBoing: There is a female blogger who has posted instructions on how to give an abortion in reaction to the possibility of abortions being banned in South Dakota.
I certainly hope that this will make South Dakota lawmakers see that banning abortion does not stop abortion any more than prohibition stopped people from drinking. And that the real solution is:
1. Sex Education, make sure people know how to avoid getting pregnant.
2. Contraception, freely or cheaply available to anyone who wants it.
3. Economic support for single mothers and low income families.
4. Free pre and post natal care for children of economically disadvantaged families.
As Hazel has often told me, until we get support and prevention for these people we won't be seeing the rate of undesired pregnancies drop. Although I am sure that I have not even come close to listing everything that needs to happen before we can even think about not having abortions be an option. For one thing, who said we could make this choice for any woman?
Thank you Molly for standing up for women everywhere and telling people exactly what the consequences of short sighted lawmaking are.
My god, what have they done?
I certainly hope that this will make South Dakota lawmakers see that banning abortion does not stop abortion any more than prohibition stopped people from drinking. And that the real solution is:
1. Sex Education, make sure people know how to avoid getting pregnant.
2. Contraception, freely or cheaply available to anyone who wants it.
3. Economic support for single mothers and low income families.
4. Free pre and post natal care for children of economically disadvantaged families.
As Hazel has often told me, until we get support and prevention for these people we won't be seeing the rate of undesired pregnancies drop. Although I am sure that I have not even come close to listing everything that needs to happen before we can even think about not having abortions be an option. For one thing, who said we could make this choice for any woman?
Thank you Molly for standing up for women everywhere and telling people exactly what the consequences of short sighted lawmaking are.
My god, what have they done?
posted by Your_Host at 8:34 AM
1 Comments:
Its really not about law making. And South Dakota isn't the only state working to put that kind of shit through right now. Its a race to the supreme court to over turn Rov vs Wade. But that is what this argument has always been about, those who see the whole picture and those who can't see the forest for the trees.
And yeah, Indiana is working to put something like that through right now. Their legislative session just gets out later.
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