power-mad misogynistic troglodytes didn't give a damn about REAL complications constantly arising from illegal abortions prior to 1973; complications and/or death that affected a huge number of women annually before that year. Women often suffered horribly, if they didn't actually die, and fetus-loving politicians didn't give a shit because it was their "punishment" for such sinning, both in having "illicit" sex and in trying to "murder" their babies (yes, too many people still think like that).
The horror stories both my grandmothers (born in 1911 and 1919, respectively) could tell regarding friends, acquaintances, classmates, etc., who'd suffered from (with a couple even dying) illegal abortions would be enough to curl your hair. They were fairly conservative in a lot of respects, but certainly not regarding abortion. They told me that a lot of women their age felt that way, even if they didn't have the guts to publicly make such feelings known. Whenever I attended pro-choice marches or rallies in the 1980's and 90's, I met a lot of women their age saying the same thing and some saying how glad they were that things had changed. One told a reporter that "I'm here because I remember what it was like for us women before it was legal. You don't even want to know the half of it" (at a D.C. march).
I met another woman not much older than me, who stood solemnly behind her giant sign, which spoke for itself. It said "My mom had an illegal abortion. I don't miss the baby.....I miss my mom." She told me and others that she and her siblings were sick to death of hearing from so many people about how hard it must be to miss the baby that we "never got to know", how we should be angry with out mother. Never a word about our mother, and how much we must miss HER".
I remember my sociology professor in college, whom I became great friends with as my boyfriend at the time was a graduate assistant in the department so we socialized a lot with many in that department. She was much older and had never married or had kids, as she was from the generation of women that had to choose between either a career or a family, they usually couldn't have both (she'd be almost a hundred years old now). She told us about female students she'd helped or tried to help before '73. One harrowing story still haunted her. A student, whose dorm wasn't far from the professor's office, came into her office one afternoon begging for help and then collapsed, bleeding. She'd tried to abort herself, and was bleeding uncontrollably. The professor got her to the ER. where she died later that night. She had NO patience for anyone who was anti-abortion, especially not men.
And none of these Indiana legislative assholes would have given a good goddamn about any of these women's lives, the lives they purportedly claim to care about by requiring all of this gestapo bullshit in this "law". If I were a doctor, I'd simply refuse to cooperate, they can go fuck themselves. Then again, some doctors agree with this shit. I once had a female GYN who claimed that "we are paying for all of these abortions now by the increase in breast cancer. Sin brings such pain." Needless to say, she wasn't my doctor for long.
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