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[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/

Is the Past a Prologue for the Roberts-Alito Court?
Abortion Before Roe

Throughout history, women have had unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. And throughout history, women have found ways to terminate those pregnancies.

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In the years just before abortion became legal in 1973, hospital wards were filled with women seeking abortions--who either had been injured or become sick obtaining an illegal abortion under dangerous conditions, or who had tried to induce the abortion themselves.

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"In Chicago, at Cook Country Hospital, there were about 5,000 women a year coming in with injuries bleeding resulting to illegal abortions, mostly self-induced abortions," Leslie Reagan, the author of When Abortion Was a Crime, said in an interview. "They had an entire ward dedicated to taking care of people in that situation. Those wards pretty much closed up around the country once abortion was legalized."

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read the whole article to see how we women fought and died to get women the rights to their own bodies.

stop the criminal, bloody hands bushmilhousegang

it won't be nice if I have to fight this all over again

you know what they say about women scorned

[LiberalEsto]

1. We took up collections at college

when someone got pregnant. The goal was to raise a couple hundred dollars for the plane ticket to Haiti and the abortion. It wasn't easy when the hourly minimum wage was $1.60.

Then we would pray that our friends made it back alive and undamaged.

[cali]

2. A few points

Even with Robert and Alito, it'll still be 5-4 to uphold Roe. Alito believes in dismantling Roe rather than directly overturning it. The dismantling of Roe has been going on for years, particularly since O'Connor penned the undue burden standard. Try being a poor woman who needs an abortion in MS. Lastly, forturnately, medicine has changed over the 35 years. Illegal abortions, primarily by abortifacients, is much safer than the old butcher system. None of this is to diminish the very real dangers of this court when it comes to choice. Frankly though, I'm far more worried about expansion of exec powers.

[donsu]

3. kicking back to page one

nt

[Catchawave]

4. "Life before Roe v.Wade"

http://www.alternet.org/rights/31049/

"...More than thirty years later, three people who helped provide abortions before Roe tell their stories..."

I hope we're saving these articles in the Research Forum !

[ohio_liberal]

5. 5,000 a year!!!!

Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch, that's almost 14 women/day in just one city. :(

[donsu]

6. yep and just guess what it was like in small towns and the countryside

nt

[DanCa]

7. we should pickett and protest these right wing loonies.

But again my cry falls on deaf ears.